Re: [2.6 Patch] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset base driver: fix disconnect handling

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:07:11 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> On 20.04.2006 09:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> > 
> >>This patch fixes a possible Oops in the Siemens Gigaset base driver when
> >> the device is unplugged while an ISDN connection is still active, and
> >> makes sure that the isdn4linux link level (LL) is properly informed if a
> >> connection is broken by the USB cable being unplugged.
> >> It also improves some kernel messages generated by the driver.
> > 
> > It seems to do quite a lot more than that.
> > [...] I'd ask you to confirm that this was actually the patch which
> > was supposed to go with that changelog.
> 
> It is. However the changelog was not quite complete. There were a couple
> of smaller changes which I neglected to mention. Sorry for that. I'll
> try to be more careful when composing future changelogs.

...

> >> --- linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset.orig/bas-gigaset.c	2006-04-19 15:15:49.000000000 +0200
> >> +++ local/drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c	2006-04-19 01:19:41.000000000 +0200
> > 
> > eek, please don't do that - it confuses my scripts.
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c
> > 
> > is preferred.  There are nice tools around which help with this.
> 
> I'll be happy to comply with whatever your scripts need, but I don't
> quite understand yet what it is that's causing you problems:
> The presence of file timestamps?
> The timestamp of the second file being earlier than the first one?
> The ".orig" suffix in the first path?
> The second path starting with "local" instead of "linux-..."?
> All of this can be easily corrected; just tell me what's required.

Both filename lines should begin one level above "drivers/".
They can be named linux* or a/ and b/ or foo/ and bar/ or whatever.
The patch needs to apply using "patch -p1".

This is all well-documented.  Please review:

linux-2.6.current/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html

and let us know if anything there needs to be clarified.

---
~Randy
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