Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751938AbWIHAUd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:20:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751943AbWIHAUd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:20:33 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49807 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751938AbWIHAU2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:20:28 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Abrahams Subject: Re: prepatching errors Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:20:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87pse7xl8o.fsf@pereiro.peloton> References: <87k64fz0nj.fsf@pereiro.peloton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IKfhlnc63ZkxWtIjZFGfgZgLuGc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 23 Chase Venters writes: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, David Abrahams wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to apply the 2.6.18-rc6 prepatch (from >> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.18-rc6.bz2) >> to the 2.6.17.11 sources (from >> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2) using > > David, > The -rc series patches should be applied to the last mainline (not > -stable) release. In your case, you want to patch 2.6.17. Oooooh! Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com - 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/