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gearhead

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Registered: 2018-03-24

Posts: 56

How to generate a diff patch to the .config file?

I am building a kernel and want to add a module at the same time. I have the module code and have staged it in the kernel source and generated a patch:
git diff HEAD > 0001-my-diff.patch

now when I build the kernel, it fails because there is no instruction to build the module. I have added it to the .config file, but the patch does not capture that.

How do I get the edits to .config in the patch?

TIA

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: How to generate a diff patch to the .config file?

Is the .config tracked - is it listed in `git ls-files`?

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