Re: Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday 26 July 2005 21:50, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:28 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Brian Gerst took 21 lines 
to write:
>> > Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > >Greetings;
>> > >
>> > >I just built what I thought was 2.6.12.3, but my script got a
>> > > tummy ache because I didn't check the Makefile's
>> > > EXTRA_VERSION, which was set to .2 in the .2 patch.  Now my
>> > > 2.6.12 modules will need a refresh build. :(
>> > >
>> > >So whats the proper patching sequence to build a 2.6.12.3?
>> >
>> > The dot-release patches are not incremental.  You apply each one
>> > to the base 2.6.12 tree.
>>
>> This bit me a while back, too. I'll submit a patch to the
>> top-level README to spell it out.
>
>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.
>
Apparently you are useing a browser to suck that stuff?  Use gftp and 
walk right up the dir structure to it.  Its not hidden at all that 
way.

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