Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes and no. What are these non-git people doing with the patches? Since
> patch won't apply them, are they just reading them for personal
> enlightenment?

Oh, patch applies them fine.

They might end up not seeing some of the updates to binary files,
that's all. So things like the logo updates or some pdf file might not
work out for them, but that doesn't mean that they can't use the patch
and the resulting kernel.

             Linus