[PATCH] scripts: scripts/patch-kernel should be able to digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches

From: Shawn Landden
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 18:13:50 EST


kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+). Allow
scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/patch-kernel | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
index 20fb25c..d000ea3 100755
--- a/scripts/patch-kernel
+++ b/scripts/patch-kernel
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ findFile () {
ext=".bz2"
name="bzip2"
uncomp="bunzip2 -dc"
+ elif [ -r ${filebase}.xz ]; then
+ ext=".xz"
+ name="xz"
+ uncomp="xz -dc"
elif [ -r ${filebase}.zip ]; then
ext=".zip"
name="zip"
--
1.7.9.1

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