Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965230AbWADTyZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:54:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965185AbWADTyZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:54:25 -0500 Received: from mail.linicks.net ([217.204.244.146]:16768 "EHLO linux233.linicks.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965276AbWADTyY (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:54:24 -0500 From: Nick Warne To: Alistair John Strachan Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:53:15 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200601041710.37648.nick@linicks.net> <200601041739.59982.nick@linicks.net> <200601041834.23722.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200601041834.23722.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601041953.15735.nick@linicks.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 31 On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:34, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:39, Nick Warne wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:36, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Yes, I got from kernel.org - I am _not_ that clever to devise my own > > incremental patches, otherwise I wouldn't be asking stupid questions... > > Nick's right, both are provided automatically by kernel.org. Anyway, I started from scratch - 2.6.14, patched to 2.6.15 and then make oldconfig etc. I think there needs to be a way out of this that is easily discernible - it does get confusing sometimes with all the patches flying around on a 'stable release'. Nick -- "Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it." -Chinese Proverb My quake2 project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/quake2plus/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/