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out of curiosity, is there a short but sweet set of rules for submitting patch files for crosstool?
as in, what's the format for the *name* of the patch file? should it contain the name of the software against which it's patched, and or the version number? as in, choices:
cross-gprof.patch binutils-cross-gprof.patch binutils-2.16.1-cross-gprof.patch
and what about dealing with new versions? if i have a file, say, glibc-2.3.4-rday.patch, and this happens to still patch against glibc-2.3.5 (but perhaps not cleanly), should i just copy it into the glibc-2.3.5 directory because it still works?
on the other hand, if i get ambitious and rediff it to make it apply perfectly cleanly, then i'm thinking i should rename with the prefix "glibc-2.3.5..." since it's obviously not the same patch file.
The other style guidelines for patches in the crosstool patch repository are:
Only patches that would be acceptable to the upstream maintainers, and which fix bugs (as opposed to add features) are allowed (except in special circumstances)
The patch should include a Signed-off-by: header from you, and any other people who put a Signed-off-by: header on it already; see http://kerneltrap.org/node/3929
The patch should begin with links to the bugzilla entry and key mailing list post that discusses it, and (if it came from CVS or SVN) the URL in CVS or SVN it was downloaded from, and the changelist description
The patch should include the 'From:', 'Subject:', 'Date:', and 'Message-Id:' fields from the email it came from, if any
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