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    SubjectRe: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
    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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