Jesper Juhl wrote: >+Where can I download the patches?
Maybe it would be useful to once again mention that local mirrors should be used at least for stable releases and */testing/*. >+The 2.6.x kernels [...] >+# moving from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12 >+$ cd ~/linux-2.6.11 # change to kernel source dir >+$ patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.12 # apply the 2.6.12 patch patch also nows "-i": patch -p1 -i ../patch-2.6.12 More likely the user will get the patch compressed either with bzip2 or gzip, so I think it would be useful to tell once more how to apply such a patch: bzcat ../patch-2.6.12.bz2 | patch -p1 >+The 2.6.x.y kernels >+$ cd ~/linux-2.6.12.2 # change into the kernel source dir >+$ patch -p1 -R < ../patch-2.6.12.2 # revert the 2.6.12.2 patch >+$ patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.12.3 # apply the new 2.6.12.3 patch >+$ cd .. >+$ mv linux-2.6.12.2 linux-2.6.12.3 # rename the kernel source dir The better way would probably be to use interdiff. Another goodie is that interdiff knows about -z: cd ~/linux-2.6.12.2 interdiff -z ../patch-2.6.12.2.bz2 ../patch-2.6.12.3.gz | patch -p1 This should only be shown as "another way" to do so. Sometimes interdiff get's confused and breaks things, although this is very unlikely for the stable diffs. >+The -mm kernels >+ These kernels in >+ addition to all the other experimental patches they contain usually also >+ contain any changes in the mainline -git kernels available at the time of >+ release. These two "contain"'s that close to each user are likely to confuse. In a German text I would but a comma before "in addition" and behind the first "contain", don't know what the rules for this are in English. Eike
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