[Manrix-devel] info on creating and applying patches.

[Manish R. <reg...@gm...>]

hi all,
i woulld like to share some idea on submitting bug reports, patches, coding=
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style etc.

If you find any kind of bugs, feel free to discuss it on the list. You can=
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either fix it yourself or ask others to have it fixed.

If you want it add features, fix bugs etc. you are free to do so. And you=
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will also get credit for your work. You can post a patch to the list. Feel=
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free to write your copyright info (Must be GPL), Name , Mailing address etc=
.

In order to create a patch, you can use the diff utility. Create two source=
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trees, the original one and the modified one. Also do not patch the whole=
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system. For example if you like to patch microkernel, create another=20
microkernel tree with your modifications. call the original one=20
"microkernel" and the other one "mymicro"(or whatever you like). then type
diff -urN microkernel/ mymicro/ > mycro.patch

For eg. for fsiomngr, go to servers folder. create a modified tree of=20
fsiomngr and call it "myfsmngr". then type.
diff -urN fsiomngr/ myfsmngr/ > myfsmngr.patch


To apply the patch, go to the root of subsystem, say microkernel folder and=
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type
cat mycro.patch | patch -p1

For now there is no fixed coding style but GNU or linux like coding style i=
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good.


Regards
Manish Regmi