From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [Announce] 2.6.29.1-rt4 Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 10:47:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <49b7c2350904042028q8865f80tcf56500e8a009c0d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: LKML , rt-users , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Carsten Emde , Clark Williams , Frank Rowand , Robin Gareus , Gregory Haskins , Philippe Reynes , Fernando Lopez-Lezcano , Will Schmidt To: GeunSik Lim Return-path: Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:56637 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754336AbZDEIsY (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:48:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49b7c2350904042028q8865f80tcf56500e8a009c0d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: GeunSik, On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote: > I have one question. What is "broken-out" 's meaning for rt patch file? The broken out tar ball contains a patch series of smaller patches, which need to be applied in a give order. The order is determined from the series file. It's a "quilt" series. quilt is a patch series management tool. "man script" We keep those smaller patches for various reasons: - It's way easier to move forward to the next kernel version with smaller patches than with a huge all in one patch. - It's easier to split out functionality from the patches and rework that particular issue and replace the patches in the series The broken out series is provided for people who want to look into the details of the patches and for preempt-rt developers. patch-2.6.X-rtY.bz2 is the combination of all patches from the series applied. We provide this as a conveniance for users and testers so they just have to apply one big patch. Thanks, tglx