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Re: [Xen-devel] status of _patches/linux-2.6.16/*

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] status of _patches/linux-2.6.16/*
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:29:04 +0200
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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 03/27/06 6:07 PM >>>
>
>On 27 Mar 2006, at 16:48, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> I'm a little confused about these patches. Could anyone clarify 
>> whether they
>> are supposed to be applied? mkbuildtree doesn't seem to use them. And 
>> some
>> of the stuff in there is present in the sparse tree already, while 
>> other parts
>> aren't.
>
>They're applied by a rule in buildconfigs/Rules.mk.

Not exactly: That file looks for patches/*-*, but currently the directory is
named _patches. Also, as I said, part of what's in the patches there is
already in the sparse tree, so these patches can't apply cleanly I would
think.

Jan

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