On Wednesday 03 August 2005 23:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > Here's an updated version of my document that attempts to give a short
> > explanation of the various kernel trees and how to apply their patches.
> > It incorporates all the feedback I've
Hi!
> How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite
> frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere.
> Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it ought to be
> properly documented once and for all so we a) get more people testing those
> tre
Jesper Juhl wrote:
>+The 2.6.x.y (-stable) and 2.6.x patches live at
>+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
>+
>+The -rc patches live at
>+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/
>+
>+The -git patches live at
>+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/
>+
>+The -mm
Hi Jesper,
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:28:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like it, just a little concerned about confusing new user with too
many alternative patching methods up front...
>+ This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be
>+done in several dif
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> +How do I feed a patch/diff file to `patch'?
> +---
> + This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be
> +done in several different ways.
> +In all the examples below I feed the file (in uncompressed form) to patch
> +via stdin usin
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 23:46, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > +What is a patch?
>
> > +To correctly apply a patch you need to know what base it was generated from
> > +and what new version the patch will change the source tree into. These
> > +should both be
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> +What is a patch?
> +To correctly apply a patch you need to know what base it was generated from
> +and what new version the patch will change the source tree into. These
> +should both be present in the patch file metadata.
This is usurally not true for
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 23:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > Here's an updated version of my document that attempts to give a short
> > explanation of the various kernel trees and how to apply their patches.
> > It incorporates all the feedback I've
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Here's an updated version of my document that attempts to give a short
> explanation of the various kernel trees and how to apply their patches.
> It incorporates all the feedback I've gotten (thanks guys).
Can we have more whitespace?
You either hav
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> 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.
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 ke
Thanks for this wonderful effort! Add one more to the testing team.
~Puneet
Jesper Juhl wrote:
Hi,
How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite
frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere.
Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it oug
Thank you! I agree that having a link off of kernel.org makes sense.
Richard
On 8/2/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite
> frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere.
> Since so many people seem to
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking forward to your feedback (and possible inclusion).
>
> I guess this document could also be placed somewhere on kernel.org and linked
> to from the front page so that people downloading the various patches will
> have this information availab
Hi,
How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite
frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere.
Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it ought to be
properly documented once and for all so we a) get more people testing those
trees and
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