Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:19:56 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: Patches for Kernel 2.6.14 on kernel.org |
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On 11/11/05, Miro Dietiker, MD Systems <info@md-systems.ch> wrote: > Hi! > > As of the kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/README all patches need to be > applied (bigger than the > current local version) > > For the current 2.6.14.2 this seems not to be true (The patch 2.6.14.1 > seems to be included in > 2.6.14.2) > The 2.6.14.2 patch is to be applied against 2.6.14 - the -stable patches are not incremental.
> Is this a "new" undocumented general behaviour such as e.g. patches > always based on the > latest 3-Number version or is this a small mistake? > Not new, no mistake.
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/applying-patches.txt
Read the "The 2.6.x kernels" and the "The 2.6.x.y kernels" sections.
> In any case: One of the described sources need to be corrected, I think. > I think the README should refer people to Documentation/applying-patches.txt for more details. I'll submit a patch in a little while to do that.
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