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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2001 12:27:15 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to submit patches?
Message-ID:  <15111.65139.402470.761754@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <98211734@toto.iv>

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Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> types:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two patches I have made to the 4.3-RELEASE kernel, one related to
> linux emulation and one relating to PCMCIA support (specifically the
> Cirrus Logic 6729 PCI-PCMCIA bridge code). How do I submit these?  I've
> not done this before, so can someone tell me what diff options should be
> used... and where to post the two patches. The linux emulation one works
> fine, however the PCMCIA one i'm not sure about, other than to say it
> works better than without the patch on the one laptop I have tested it on.
> What's the process for patches that are essentially untested like this
> second one?

Use the -u option to diff, and use send-pr to submit the patches. Read
the send-pr man page for more information.

	<mike
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