Re: mmotm 2009-06-30-12-50 uploaded

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 16:38:52 EST


On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:27:01 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> Not sure why that line did it. Repeated truncate-and-try shows that if the
> line contained just the 4 chars '0804', it applied fine, but '0804a' dies.

That's patch(1) thinking it's a regular diff:

akpm:/usr/src/25> diff Makefile Makefile~linux-next
4c4
< EXTRAVERSION = -rc1-mm1
---
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
142a143,144
> TOPDIR := $(srctree)
> # FIXME - TOPDIR is obsolete, use srctree/objtree
149c151
< export srctree objtree VPATH
---
> export srctree objtree VPATH TOPDIR
328c330
< LDFLAGS_MODULE = -T $(srctree)/scripts/module-common.lds
---
> LDFLAGS_MODULE =
345,346c347
< -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
< -Wno-format-security
---
> -Werror-implicit-function-declaration


So the "0804a" means "at line 804, start appending stuff", or something
like that.

Use -u.
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