so I have this patchset (sent to lkml recently ), it adds a new struct: struct _ddebug_info dyndbg: create and use struct _ddebug_info this new struct gathers the linker provided vectors/sections: descs - the vector of descriptors in __dyndbg section. num_descs - length of the data/section If I had an endless supply of free do-overs, Id change the name to something a little less user-facing, since its meant to ref the whole dyndbg-config-state is there some git command magic to work this ? in a pre-git world, I might try perl -pi -e 's/_ddebug_info/_ddebug_stateinfo/g' 00*.patch that "might" work, but could also create a myriad of conflicts when the patchset is 'git am' d and it might apply clean but still break on compile ? anyone care to opine on the probability of success ? If I try this, I'll report back. ISTM more likely than my doing it manually.