Re: RFC: 2.6.release.patchlevel: Patch against 2.6.release[.0] ?

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* L. A. Walsh (lkml@tlinx.org) wrote:
> Given the frequency with which stabilization patches may be released, it
> may not be practical to expect users to catch each release announcement
> and download each patch.
> 
> Especially if small patches are released for stability, as one might
> (hopefully) expect.  Assuming that stability and "fix-it" patches will
> generally be small (I'd hope).  Seeing that the latest "fix-it" patch
> is already at ".6", I'd have to load multiple patches to catch up from
> 2.6.11.  I blinked my eyes and missed a few or 5 previous stability
> patches, so I just downloaded the entire bzip...not a biggie, but
> might create less load on servers if I didn't need to go through 6
> patch applications to get current.

The patches on kernel.org in v2.6/ are already against the base (i.e.
patch-2.6.11.6.bz2 is against 2.6.11).  The patches in v2.6/incr/
are incremental between -stable releases (i.e. patch-2.6.11.5-6.bz2 is
against 2.6.11.5).

thanks,
-chris