Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757840AbZDEIsi (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:48:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756289AbZDEIs0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:48:26 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:56637 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754336AbZDEIsY (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:48:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 10:47:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: GeunSik Lim cc: LKML , rt-users , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Carsten Emde , Clark Williams , Frank Rowand , Robin Gareus , Gregory Haskins , Philippe Reynes , Fernando Lopez-Lezcano , Will Schmidt Subject: Re: [Announce] 2.6.29.1-rt4 In-Reply-To: <49b7c2350904042028q8865f80tcf56500e8a009c0d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <49b7c2350904042028q8865f80tcf56500e8a009c0d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 33 GeunSik, On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote: > I have one question. What is "broken-out" 's meaning for rt patch file? The broken out tar ball contains a patch series of smaller patches, which need to be applied in a give order. The order is determined from the series file. It's a "quilt" series. quilt is a patch series management tool. "man script" We keep those smaller patches for various reasons: - It's way easier to move forward to the next kernel version with smaller patches than with a huge all in one patch. - It's easier to split out functionality from the patches and rework that particular issue and replace the patches in the series The broken out series is provided for people who want to look into the details of the patches and for preempt-rt developers. patch-2.6.X-rtY.bz2 is the combination of all patches from the series applied. We provide this as a conveniance for users and testers so they just have to apply one big patch. Thanks, tglx -- 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/