Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:37:53 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch |
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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.
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