Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:36:03 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Nick Warne wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:18, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > > Is there one?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > What you do is you first revert the 2.6.14.5 patch so you are left
> > with a 2.6.14 kernel, then you apply the 2.6.15 patch.
> > For more info, please read Documentation/applying-patches.txt
> > (http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/applying-patches.txt)
>
> I thought about doing it that way, but convinced myself it was too
> complicated.
>
> I see it is the right way (whatever that is).
>
> I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5

and how did you do that?
Noone supplies such incremental patches AFAIK.

> I suppose I have to backtrack and revert all those patches in order?

No, you can revert 2.6.14.5 directly to 2.6.14.

-- 
~Randy
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