Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> And to further test this whole -stable system, I've released 2.6.11.2.
> It contains one patch, which is already in the -bk tree, and came from
> the security team (hence the lack of the longer review cycle).
> 
> It's available now in the normal kernel.org places:
> 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.11.2.gz
> which is a patch against the 2.6.11.1 release.  If consensus arrives
> that this patch should be against the 2.6.11 tree, it will be done that
> way in the future.

I think you need both x.y.z=>x.y.z.N and x.y.z.N-1=>x.y.z.N patches. My 
systems which are following the -stable will just need the most recent, 
but doing x.y.z-1=>x.y.z.N gets really ugly for higher values of N.

It can be automated, it's just two (presumably tiny) patchsets per release.

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