Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:01:10 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>, "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       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, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:34:23PM +0000, 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.

Not "automatically", the -stable team lovingly hand crafts them for
every release, just because we are a people-pleasing group.

Well ok, we have a script that does it for us as part of our release,
but someone had to write that script, and it isn't automatically
generated by kernel.org like some of the other interdiffs are...

thanks,

greg k-h
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