scripts/patch-kernel: digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches

kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+). Allow scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files. Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
zhenyw · Mar 30, 2012 · 354fa22 · 354fa22
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diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ findFile () {
 		ext=".bz2"
 		name="bzip2"
 		uncomp="bunzip2 -dc"
+  elif [ -r ${filebase}.xz ]; then
+                ext=".xz"
+                name="xz"
+                uncomp="xz -dc"
   elif [ -r ${filebase}.zip ]; then
 		ext=".zip"
 		name="zip"