Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 22:01, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:34:23PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:39, Nick Warne wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:36, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > I went from 2.6.14 -> 2.6.14.2 -> .2-.3 -> .3-.4 -> .4-.5
> > > >
> > > > and how did you do that?
> > > > Noone supplies such incremental patches AFAIK.
> > >
> > > Yes, I got from kernel.org - I am _not_ that clever to devise my own
> > > incremental patches, otherwise I wouldn't be asking stupid questions...
> >
> > Nick's right, both are provided automatically by kernel.org.
>
> Not "automatically", the -stable team lovingly hand crafts them for
> every release, just because we are a people-pleasing group.
>
> Well ok, we have a script that does it for us as part of our release,
> but someone had to write that script, and it isn't automatically
> generated by kernel.org like some of the other interdiffs are...

My mistake Greg ;-)

We love the stable team all the more for it.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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