Hi,
Thanks to everyone for the pointers on this. It looks likes like this
won't be as easy as I thought, but not as painful either. It will just
take a little extra disk space. Thanks again.
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Kyle Mestery
StorageTek's Storage Networking Group
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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Russell King wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > I have a question about the frequent patches Russell generates. I am
> > wondering if instead of generating patches against a stock 2.2.7 kernel,
> > for example, it would be possibly to generate a patch for 2.2.7 against
> > a 2.2.6 kernel with the last 2.2.6-rmk patch.
>
> The patches are generated automatically between a clean source tree
> and the current tree. The script:
>
> 1. The current tree is updated from my development master tree
> (on another machine - there are 4 other trees on this machine
> for each platform - a5k, rpc, ebsa285, ebsa110).
>
> 2. The current tree is cleaned up, top-level makefile patched,
> and the diff generated.
>
> 3. The diff is then placed in my local copy of the FTP site.
>
> I don't tend to keep the previous kernel sources, which would be required
> to do the delta diffs between the versions.
>
> Plus, it would be difficult to do them between Linus' patches.
>
> Probably your best way to do this would be to check out a copy
> of my tree from your VCS, unpatch it, apply Linus' patches, and
> then apply my patch to that. This would be an indirect way, but
> would get you to the same point.
>
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> Russell King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Millbank Electronics Tel: 01825 764811 Fax: 01825 761620
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