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Franz Pletz 36be7d3e85 Revert parts of "linux: remove unused kernel patches" This reverts commit `05b8cae9ec` that removed the cgroup v2 patch for the 4.4 kernel.		2017-10-30 17:57:00 +01:00
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README.md

README.md

Patches for CPU Controller on Control Group v2

See Tejun Heo's explanation for why these patches are currently out-of-tree.

Generating the patches

In a linux checkout, with remote tc-cgroup pointing to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git, your nixpkgs checkout in the same directory as your linux checkout (or modify the command accordingly), and setting ver to the appropriate version:

$ ver=4.7
$ git log --reverse --patch v$ver..remotes/tc-cgroup/cgroup-v2-cpu-v$ver > ../nixpkgs/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/cpu-cgroup-v2-patches/$ver.patch