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> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:37:31 +0200, Voluspa <lista1@telia.com> wrote: > >Ah, sorry about the noise... I've been away from kernel testing too > >long. I patched a 2.6.11.11 tree without noticing all the rejects (this > >new machine is fast). But from what I remember, it was decided to do > >the -rc patches against the latest stable codebase, in this case .11 > >Shrug. > I dunno what the change was, patch didn't apply cleanly to 2.6.11, > (no idea if bad .bz2, finger trouble), so I download whole thing > instead, now running on three x86 boxen. It was explicitly stated by Linus way back 2.6.8.1 time that subsequent patches are against the base of the previous release, so -rcs are against 2.6.x not 2.6.x.y.. which all makes great sense if development is happening in parallel... I'm not sure I've ever heard anything else stated to oppose this, but apparently some people have.. Dave. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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