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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 10:39:56 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net>
Cc:        "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "stable" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: -CURRENT Mylex on stable? 
Message-ID:  <200005231739.KAA09316@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 18:12:12 CDT." <001a01bfc443$29986790$0102a8c0@k6> 

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 
> |  1) Get the diffs.
> |
> | You will need a CVS repository, or use the cvsweb interface
> | at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi to extract the diffs.
> | Note that mlx.c, mlx_disk.c, mlx_pci.c and mlxvar.h all changed
> | in this fix.
> |
> |  2) Apply the diffs.
> 
> OK, not to be flippant, but is there any reason I couldn't just use the
> CURRENT version of those files? 

Yes, otherwise I would just have told you to fetch them.

> I'm missing where the end result of
> diff/patch differs from the files themselves.  It's a nice exercise, but
> kind of a PITA when you're not a CVS user.

The goal is to extract the changes I made to portions of the driver that 
are largely common between the two versions.

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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