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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:42:55 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>>
>>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?
> 

It'd be easy to make its own page, and then link it from the FAQ.  Heck, 
the easiest might be to link it to the gitweb checkout of 
Documentation/applying-patches.txt, but having it be nicely HTML 
formatted would probably be better.

	-hpa
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