From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbVABRZi (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:25:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261295AbVABRZe (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:25:34 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:20425 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbVABRZ2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:25:28 -0500 Message-ID: <41D8313F.1000003@tmr.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 12:37:03 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux lover , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: why there is different kernel versions from RedHat? References: <20041231133525.47475.qmail@web52205.mail.yahoo.com> <41D5FDCE.2090905@tmr.com> <1104676568.14712.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1104676568.14712.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2005-01-01 at 01:33, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>linux lover wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>>Where can i get special pathces used by RedHat to >>>original kernels from www.kernel.org? >> >>Three step process >>1 - get the RH source RPM and unpack >>2 - get the kernel.org source of the same number >>3 - use diff to generate the patch. >> >>Optional step 4 - look at the size of it, shake your head and swear. > > > If you do it such a dumb way then sure. Most of the patches in the 2.6.8 > and 2.6.9 ones are post 2.6.9 fixes already in the base tree because of > the lack of a stable base kernel tree in Linus new model. > > In order that we don't go collectively insane maintaining it those are > broken out from the feature patches we needed. Generating a single giant > diff loses all the useful info. I didn't feel the need of editorial comment on the original question, clearly if you had a better way to get WHAT HE ASKED FOR you might have included it instead of commenting on the answer. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979