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

Shawn Landden · michal42 · commit 354fa22fce76 · 2012-03-30T15:23:36.000+02:00
kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+).
Allow scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden &lt;shawnlandden@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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"
