Re: Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:50:50 EDT, Steven Rostedt said:

> Someone should also fix the home page of kernel.org. Since there's no
> link on that page that points to the full 2.6.12. Since a lot of the
> patches on that page go directly against the 2.6.12 kernel and not
> 2.6.12.3, it would be nice to get the full source of that kernel from
> the home page.

Even more to the point - when 2.6.13 comes out, there will be a patch against
2.6.12, not 2.6.12.N, which means you get to download the 2.6.12.N tarball,
the 2.6.12.N patch, patch -R that, and *then* apply the 2.6.13 patch.

Blegga. :)

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