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Re: Creating diff from 2.6.16 from cryptodev-2.6 git tree

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HXHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date
Jun 30, 2006, 02:32 UTC
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> The easiest by far is if you only care about a certain sub-directory. 
> Then, assuming the branch "crypto" is the top-most commit of the cryptodev 
> repo, just do
> 
> 	git diff v2.6.16..crypto -- crypto/

Yes, you should always do something like this when backporting to make sure that you haven't missed patches merged in ways that you didn't anticipate.

Although I'm not aware of any such patches in the time frame that Michal has in mind.

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  1. Michal LudvigJun 30, 2006
  2. Herbert XuJun 30, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsJun 30, 2006
  4. Herbert XuJun 30, 2006
  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 30, 2006
  6. Michal LudvigJun 30, 2006
  7. Michal LudvigJun 30, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 30, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2006

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