Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Matt Mackall wrote:
>
>> In your world, do you want to do:
>>
>> cp -rl linux-2.6.11 linux-2.6.11.5
>> cd linux-2.6.11.5
>> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.1.bz2 | patch -p1
>> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.2.bz2 | patch -p1
>> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.3.bz2 | patch -p1
>> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.4.bz2 | patch -p1
>> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.5.bz2 | patch -p1
>>
>> I suspect you might find that tedious, especially if only the last one
>> addressed a bug that affected you.
>
>
> Being lazy, I would do
> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.*.bz | patch -p1
> (or similar). But as I posted long ago when this discussion started it 
> is desirable to have both.
>
being super lazy I'd type:
scripts/patch-kernel . ../Patches

nb it's currently broke as mentioned in another thread:
Re: [BUG] Re: [PATCH] scripts/patch-kernel: use EXTRAVERSION
being fixed though. It will (I assume!) embody whatever rules are needed 
to revoke patches to go from 2.6.11.5 to 2.6.12 (and since I think the 
new version has d/l facilities, that should assist in the case of a base 
kernel d/l of 2.6.11.3 for which no local patches exist to revert prior 
to patching to 2.6.12)

David