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SubjectRe: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:10:36PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:53, Nick Warne wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:34, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:39, Nick Warne wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:36, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > > I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5
> > > > >
> > > > > and how did you do that?
> > > > > Noone supplies such incremental patches AFAIK.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I got from kernel.org - I am _not_ that clever to devise my own
> > > > incremental patches, otherwise I wouldn't be asking stupid questions...
> > >
> > > Nick's right, both are provided automatically by kernel.org.
> >
> > Anyway, I started from scratch - 2.6.14, patched to 2.6.15 and then make
> > oldconfig etc.
> >
> > I think there needs to be a way out of this that is easily discernible - it
> > does get confusing sometimes with all the patches flying around on a
> > 'stable release'.
>
> It's documented in the kernel.
>
> There's something in the kernel.org FAQ there about -rc kernels, but it might
> be better to generalise this for stable releases. Added hpa to CC.

What do you mean, "generalize" this? Where else could we document it
better?

thanks,

greg k-h
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