Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/37] 5.15.96-rc2 review

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 11:47 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can send a patch unless you want to take those changes directly, you
> have half a commit message there already I think :)

Not being one of those old fogeys myself, I don't feel hugely motivated to care.

In fact, I think GNU patch implemented the git patch format extensions
more than a decade ago, so we might even simply decide that it's past
time to even worry about this at all.

In fact, with all the base infrastructure supporting git patches, I'm
not quite sure just _how_ quilt is able to apply patches without
dealing with mode bits.

Does quilt parse the patches and actively remove those lines before
applying them? Or does quilt have some actual built-in patch
application code that doesn't depend on GNU patch?

(Side note: GNU patch may support git patches, but I don't think GNU
diffutils will generate them, so I guess not all base infrastructure
supports that fancy new "mode" line)

             Linus