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diff --git a/util/kconfig/README.md b/util/kconfig/README.md index 1350e04300..4d508a5e19 100644 --- a/util/kconfig/README.md +++ b/util/kconfig/README.md @@ -37,3 +37,44 @@ Linux. Check that kconfig still works, `git add` and `git commit` the changes and write a meaningful commit message that documents what Linux kconfig version the tree has been upreved to. + +## Adding a new patch +The format of the patches to kconfig is a mix of the headers produced by `git +format-patch` and the patch format of quilt. However neither git nor quilt +seems to have any functionality to directly produce a file in such a format + +To add a patch in this format: +1. Add your changes to the sources and `git commit` them +2. Generate a git patch for the commit: + + $ git format-patch HEAD~ + +3. Reverse apply the newly created patch file to restore the tree back to the + state quilt thinks it is in: + + $ git apply -R <the patch file> + +4. Import the patch info quilt: + + $ quilt import <the patch file> + +5. Force push the change to the top of quilt's patch stack (quilt won't like + the git diff style and would normally refuse to apply the patch): + + $ quilt push -f <the patch file> + +6. Add the changed files to be tracked against the quilt: + + $ quilt add <the files you changed> + +7. Re-apply your changes from the patch file: + + $ git apply <the patch file> + +8. Add the changes to quilt to regenerate the patch file in a quilt compatible + format while keeping the git header: + + $ quilt refresh + +9. The new patch file and updated patches/series files can now be added to the + git commit |