From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Doyle Subject: Re: RT patchset naming convention Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:37:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171230060728.398d1845@archlinux.localdomain> <20171230061848.1918cd85@archlinux.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org To: Arve Barsnes Return-path: Received: from mail-ot0-f193.google.com ([74.125.82.193]:34814 "EHLO mail-ot0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750920AbdL3Ohm (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:37:42 -0500 Received: by mail-ot0-f193.google.com with SMTP id n18so30197191otd.1 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:37:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:21 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On 30 December 2017 at 05:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> 4.9.61-rt61 >> 4.9.68-rt60 >> >> It's somewhat unusual that the kernel version does increases and the rt >> patch version decreases, usually it's vice versa ;). > > That's probably a spelling error in some way, 4.9.61 had the -rt51 > patch set, and no -rt61 patch set has been announced as far as I could > find. Meaning -rt60 is the latest one :) Sorry for the confusion... I know better than to post a question when I'm tired and grumpy... but unfortunately, discretion is one of the virtues I lose when I'm tired and grumpy :-) I was looking at the patches available at https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.9/ I was confused by names such as: patch-4.9.61-rt51-rt52-rc1.patch.gz patch-4.9.65-rt56.patch.gz and patches-4.9.61-rt61.tar.gz (and, yes indeed, there are both patches-4.9.61-rt61.tar.gz and patches-4.9.68-rt60.tar.gz available there) I should have just stopped and looked more carefully before I posted my question... in hindsight, it is clear to me that the patch-*A-B.patch.gz file is a patchset to go from A to B, whereas the patches-X.gz file is the entire set of patches for release X. So, sorry for the spam. But I do remain curious as to the best approach to take to apply patches to my vendor supplies 4.9.51 kernel. There appear to be no patches available for any of the 4.9.5x kernels (the "older" subdirectory contains patches for kernel 4.9.47 and 4.9.61, but nothing for kernel revisions between those two). What is the best approach to take here? I could go down a path of working with the (ARM chip) vendor to bump up to an rt-linux supported kernel rev. I could just apply the 4.9.61 patchset to my 4.9.51 kernel, see that they apply, and run from there. (For the moment, I'm starting with plan "b", and will contact my vendor about plan "a"). --wpd