Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 1/4/06, Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > On 1/4/06, Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:40, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5
> > > >
> > > > If you did that you did it wrong. The -stable patches are *not*
> > > > incremental, they all apply to the base 2.6.x kernel.
> > >
> > > nick@linuxamd:kernel$ ls -lsa | grep patch
> > >
> > >    24 -rw-r--r--   1 nick users    20572 2005-11-11 06:07 patch-2.6.14.2
> > >    48 -rw-r--r--   1 nick users    46260 2005-11-24 22:15 patch-2.6.14.3
> > >    24 -rw-r--r--   1 nick users    22725 2005-12-15 00:27 patch-2.6.14.3-4
> > >    20 -rw-r--r--   1 nick users    18651 2005-12-27 00:29 patch-2.6.14.4-5
> > >
> >
> > $ ncftp ftp.kernel.org
> > NcFTP 3.1.9 (Mar 24, 2005) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
> > Connecting to 204.152.191.37...
> > Welcome to ftp.kernel.org.
> > Logging in...
> > <-- snip -->
> > ncftp / > cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
> > Directory successfully changed.
> > ncftp /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 > ls -l patch-2.6.14.?.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 536      536         2841   Nov  9 01:01   patch-2.6.14.1.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 536      536         6566   Nov 11 06:07   patch-2.6.14.2.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 536      536        13849   Nov 24 22:15   patch-2.6.14.3.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 536      536        21012   Dec 15 00:27   patch-2.6.14.4.gz
> > -rw-r--r--    1 536      536        25943   Dec 27 00:29   patch-2.6.14.5.gz
>
> but the incremental patches do appear to be in
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/
>
> who generates these?  are they automated?
>
Hmm, yes, you are right. I was not aware of those. When did those
start to apear?
Guess I need to update applying-patches.txt if those are automated...

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