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Subject: Re: How to switch kernel customizations from 2.6.15.6 to 2.6.16?
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Matt McCutchen <hashproduct@verizon.net> writes:

>> you could:
>> 
>>         $ git fetch git://../torvalds/linux-2.6.git tag v2.6.16
>>         $ git checkout -b 2.6.16-matt v2.6.16
>>         $ git format-patch origin master | git am -3
>...
> What is wrong?

Me ;-).

It should have been 

        $ git format-patch --stdout origin master | git am -3

Sorry.

> Perhaps this is just politics, but which kernel repository is more
> official, and why?  Linus's or the one I have been using,
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git
> ?

Linus tree is the main development for the 2.6.(X+1), and
2.6.x.y are managed by the stable team.  They serve different
purposes, and both are "official".