Ok, this is probably basic, but I'm a newbie to the world of kernel hacking.

How do I create a patchfile that only looks for changes to .c and .h files? diff -Naur linux-empeg linux-empeg.new pulls in binary objects etc..

This has got to be basic.

Use the option ``--exclude=*.o''. You might need to escape that asterisk somehow, depending on your shell. (Backslashes and single-quotes are good bets.)

Hey, that got me looking in the right direction..I found a dontdiff file that is used with '-X dontdiff'. dontdiff is a line delimited list of files types to exclude. I needed to add a couple of items to the list, but I'm all set.

Thanks.

I always just do "make mrproper" in the kernel top level directory, and then run a recursive diff against the "virgin" tree. Something like this:

diff -u --recursive --new-file --exclude=zImage --exclude=config.ini --exclude=.\* --exclude=${0##*/} linux-v2b11/ hijack/