<div dir="ltr"><div>I think those are git commit IDs.<br><br></div>-Avinash<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Shraddha Kamat <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sh2008ka@gmail.com" target="_blank">sh2008ka@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 13:58 +0400, Lijo Antony wrote:<br>
&gt; On 12/19/2012 12:47 PM, Shraddha Kamat wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; Sorry if this is not relevant to kernel. But since I am<br>
&gt; &gt; patching the kernel - Please consider this as a uber beginner<br>
&gt; &gt; question to ask on this mailing list - forgive me for that.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Now my question is -<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; What &quot;@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@&quot; mean in this snippet from the patch -<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; diff --git a/exec.h b/exec.h<br>
&gt; &gt; index 722c620..6abb687 100644<br>
&gt; &gt; --- a/exec.h<br>
&gt; &gt; +++ b/exec.h<br>
&gt; &gt; @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm,<br>
&gt; &gt; unsigned long pages);<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html</a><br>
&gt; <a href="http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293" target="_blank">http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; -lijo<br>
&gt;<br>
</div>But I don&#39;t see any mention of the &quot;index&quot; field here //<br>
see line &quot;index 722c620..6abb687 100644&quot;. What does this mean ?<br>
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&gt; &gt; -- Shraddha<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
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-- Shraddha<br>
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