Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch

[Jesper Juhl]

On 1/4/06, Grant Coady <grant_lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:13:08 +0100, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On 1/4/06, Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>but the incremental patches do appear to be in
> >> >>  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/
> >> ..
> >> >
> >> > 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...
> >>
> >> That's how Greg posts them to LKML also -- as incremental patches.
> >>
> >Yes, I know that's what he posts them on LKML, I just never knew that
> >they got archived on kernel.org in incr. form as well.  Now I know :-)
>
> Easy to revert 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.14 then patch to 2.6.15 if you follow
> the stable series.  Still saves ~30MB downloading source.
>
Yup, no point in downloading everything all the time.

> Because I'm also compiling the -rc? and -mm? I keep 2.6.14 tree and use
> hardlink trees, when 2.6.15 came out I patched the 2.6.14 to 2.6.15
> and deleted the development trees -- works for me ;)
>
Very similar to what I do myself.

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