From: Nishanth Aravamudan Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:50:50 +0000 Subject: [KJ] [PATCH] update faq Message-Id: <20050627165050.GF28435@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============094876246891460347==" List-Id: To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============094876246891460347== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi KJ-ers, One cleanup reqarding ketchup usage & one additional feature (make O=) for the FAQ. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan --- faq 2005-05-29 17:05:59.000000000 -0700 +++ faq.dev 2005-06-27 09:48:57.000000000 -0700 @@ -63,11 +63,22 @@ When diffing more files (especially in d that is should break hardlinks; vim can be taught by setting "set backupcopy=auto,breakhardlink" in your ~/.vimrc . Example usage: - ketchup 2.6.12 + ketchup 2.6 (currently 2.6.12) cp -al linux-2.6.12 mytree # change some random files in mytree/ diff -pruNX Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.12 mytree > my_new_patch +Another useful feature is the kbuild O= feature. This allows you to save +output files in a separate directory. Thus, one could, in parallel to +the linked source trees, create separate build trees, e.g. linux/views/ +and linux/build/. Example usage, presuming you followed the ketchup +steps above in a directory called views: + + cd ../build/ + mkdir linux-2.6.12 + cp backup_config_from_somewhere_else linux-2.6.12/. + cd ../views/linux-2.6.12/ + make O=$(pwd | sed s/views/build/) -j4 oldconfig bzImage Since typing Signed-off-by gets boring, here's a ~/.vimrc sample: map ^iSigned-off-by: Random C Developer ^ --===============094876246891460347== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============094876246891460347==--