Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757585AbcJXVpE (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:45:04 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f195.google.com ([209.85.161.195]:34471 "EHLO mail-yw0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753837AbcJXVpD (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:45:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161024212754.GI42084@redhat.com> References: <20161024182503.GH42084@redhat.com> <20161024212754.GI42084@redhat.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:45:01 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -A_cyi4PaA_BSDzhVDZp2vZYbs0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? To: Jarod Wilson Cc: Josh Boyer , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg Kroah-Hartman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 516 Lines: 14 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Yes and no. What are these non-git people doing with the patches? Since > patch won't apply them, are they just reading them for personal > enlightenment? Oh, patch applies them fine. They might end up not seeing some of the updates to binary files, that's all. So things like the logo updates or some pdf file might not work out for them, but that doesn't mean that they can't use the patch and the resulting kernel. Linus