From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262188AbVG0LMY (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:12:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262190AbVG0LMX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:12:23 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.57]:52118 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262188AbVG0LLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:11:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3 From: Steven Rostedt To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Kurt Wall , webmaster@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200507270234.j6R2YEW4009061@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <200507251020.08894.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <42E51593.7070902@didntduck.org> <20050727012853.GA2354@kurtwerks.com> <1122429050.29823.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200507270234.j6R2YEW4009061@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:11:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1122462703.29823.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 22:34 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > Even more to the point - when 2.6.13 comes out, there will be a patch against > 2.6.12, not 2.6.12.N, which means you get to download the 2.6.12.N tarball, > the 2.6.12.N patch, patch -R that, and *then* apply the 2.6.13 patch. The sad part of this, is that I have actually done that :-/ (when 2.6.12 came out s/\.12/.11/ s/\.13/.12/). -- Steve