From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932104AbWADWDN (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:03:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932554AbWADWCi (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:02:38 -0500 Received: from c-24-22-115-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([24.22.115.24]:45447 "EHLO aria.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932214AbWADWCJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:02:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:01:57 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Nick Warne , "Randy.Dunlap" , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch Message-ID: <20060104220157.GB12778@kroah.com> References: <200601041710.37648.nick@linicks.net> <200601041834.23722.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200601041953.15735.nick@linicks.net> <200601042010.36208.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601042010.36208.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:10:36PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:53, Nick Warne wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:34, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:39, Nick Warne wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:36, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5 > > > > > > > > > > and how did you do that? > > > > > Noone supplies such incremental patches AFAIK. > > > > > > > > Yes, I got from kernel.org - I am _not_ that clever to devise my own > > > > incremental patches, otherwise I wouldn't be asking stupid questions... > > > > > > Nick's right, both are provided automatically by kernel.org. > > > > Anyway, I started from scratch - 2.6.14, patched to 2.6.15 and then make > > oldconfig etc. > > > > I think there needs to be a way out of this that is easily discernible - it > > does get confusing sometimes with all the patches flying around on a > > 'stable release'. > > It's documented in the kernel. > > There's something in the kernel.org FAQ there about -rc kernels, but it might > be better to generalise this for stable releases. Added hpa to CC. What do you mean, "generalize" this? Where else could we document it better? thanks, greg k-h