From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84153C433EF for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234457AbiCJEIw (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2022 23:08:52 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45108 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232620AbiCJEIv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2022 23:08:51 -0500 Received: from mail-pj1-x1032.google.com (mail-pj1-x1032.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::1032]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38B727487A; Wed, 9 Mar 2022 20:07:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pj1-x1032.google.com with SMTP id m11-20020a17090a7f8b00b001beef6143a8so4115009pjl.4; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:07:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject:content-language:to :cc:references:from:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lOGsKXR40MzrVcMHWeC6U8EP187W1cfPMllbU9spfy4=; b=d7SXPpbqzZKYTwjwgiswjOYgBLV2yzAX6epBBVnzbsvzqfkbqsv45dSgDabXv+Ww4R eEdK5ZY4qxdWrTm43XPt/0xRBv5Pc+oXe4eRUlAEGHLoYFMPgQJTPuksVAipGrsDgCCe mSm+nNrJuOEw5OOM/bVZTfBUAK3l8ibzuP8dA5ktGGPv1vsekyCw0ZAwDAUOcKpEBCWN 94v7iArjTMpWmkSj+2xUimKDXiapWSZ6ZVhmF7tmrItbuQimRq4Kxv+vFRt5qMlPrl5v lRs3aHrbw0OZotvO6GuQHXp7zON2mXsgp18ZObafKdAU/VWjB254Uvj2K+YTwCGna5R0 a/aQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lOGsKXR40MzrVcMHWeC6U8EP187W1cfPMllbU9spfy4=; b=nUL0zUf/ewJ3bEehvWrdGTt8b9whPND3krbT7L4QQEyYJ7x8qXaFfph5ENBBnTgKHy fwQQfw56rIFgnLI0je1idp6DuvnMNri1IOCdweTMldOL2H5fcdiHZ8VHbBsHyH4H6mUa vcKGliRtaTJUGrk/sHG+h1JaHkgsrh3jQIDIFeVQ8AQRjIKPAqFehPHWNiOcuRZk/7r/ Vrjwj+PPAO2x3p3yMb9JGg0Gp2H2b25QAJZePZ3zhmIZHuj0DzIqn8omxIJXTVNAp4op FXcgJZeB1d5sa1iUZcgOjbDAa0k/lQNZqFWdOGPLEn8qc4BN/3mBBD3rvcGTfuQd7fmX EJ8Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531hMglLWz0C52TYfhLn0+7vea9wRvSwD/elB7YLZpb9JM4YTY/E WfRmZuDmhwpEXFtAJr6LaUaCBRUCMTI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwLY0RJraH7XmAsX5Ei/ShC0xAnGUWkGghiC29+Cx21rIozy0GcStFFB36LfBDaRKvIOwpgNQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:f145:b0:151:a441:433a with SMTP id d5-20020a170902f14500b00151a441433amr2939864plb.44.1646885270738; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.43.80] (subs32-116-206-28-60.three.co.id. [116.206.28.60]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k19-20020a056a00135300b004f734327960sm4995550pfu.106.2022.03.09.20.07.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:07:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9c2ea46f-57f9-29e6-7232-c2482acfed15@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:07:46 +0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.6.2 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: describe how to apply incremental stable patches Content-Language: en-US To: Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: SeongJae Park , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20220307063340.256671-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <87mthy7lif.fsf@meer.lwn.net> From: Bagas Sanjaya In-Reply-To: <87mthy7lif.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 10/03/22 06.29, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > I've applied this, thanks. I do have to wonder, though, how useful this > information is anymore. Does anybody actually apply kernel-patch files > this far into the Git era? > I think most people don't use Git to track kernel sources, so they just download full tarball from kernel.org, then applying stable update patches (normal or incremental). I also used to do the same, but now I use Git because when there is stable kernel update, I can simply `git fetch`, then checkout desired stable branch, and `git merge`. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara