Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750788AbWADWuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:50:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750910AbWADWuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:50:09 -0500 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:12742 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750788AbWADWuH (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:50:07 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:50:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Nick Warne , "Randy.Dunlap" , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200601041710.37648.nick@linicks.net> <200601041834.23722.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060104220110.GA12778@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060104220110.GA12778@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601042250.09647.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1463 Lines: 37 On Wednesday 04 January 2006 22:01, Greg KH wrote: > 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... My mistake Greg ;-) We love the stable team all the more for it. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - 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/