From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:10:36 +0000
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On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:53, Nick Warne wrote:
> 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'.

It's documented in the kernel.

There's something in the kernel.org FAQ there about -rc kernels, but it might 
be better to generalise this for stable releases. Added hpa to CC.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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