Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite
> frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere. 
> Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it ought to be 
> properly documented once and for all so we  a) get more people testing those 
> trees  and  b) get asked this question less often.
> So, I sat down and wrote such a document.
> 
> Below is a patch to add a new file "applying-patches.txt" to Documentation/
> This document describes each of the trees and gives examples on how to apply 
> the various patches.
> 
> Looking forward to your feedback (and possible inclusion).
> 
> I guess this document could also be placed somewhere on kernel.org and linked 
> to from the front page so that people downloading the various patches will 
> have this information available at their fingertips.

Perhaps including ketchup in linux/scripts makes sense? Places for
download slowly change so it needs to be kept up-to-date, and it is
*very* nice to use...

									Pavel

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