From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:55:25 +0000
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On Thursday 05 January 2006 15:37, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 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.

It's certainly one possibility, but this file is at least 4x more verbose than 
my summary. I aimed to write something instructional, rather than provide a 
complete explanation of the "patch problem".

If this issue is large enough to get its own page on kernel.org, then a more 
complete description may indeed be justified. Comments?

-- 
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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