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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:37:53 +0100
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
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On 1/5/06, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 00:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > > Re-read the thread. The confusion here is about "going back" to 2.6.14
> > > before patching 2.6.15. This has nothing to do with "rc kernels". We have
> > > this documented explicitly in the kernel but not on the kernel.org FAQ.
> >
> > If you can send me some suggested verbiage I'll put it in the FAQ.  We
> > can also make a page that's directly linked from the "stable release",
> > kind of like we have info links for -mm patches etc.
>
> I hope somebody else here can minimise my logic; I think the verbosity is
> necessary to completely explain the "patch nightmare" to everybody concerned.
>
[snip]

Nice writeup, but why not simply put a copy of
Documentation/applying-patches.txt online and link to that?
It contains more or less the same stuff you just wrote.


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