Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-04 Thread Pavel Machek
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-04 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Bodo Eggert
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
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.

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Puneet Vyas
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Hubbell
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

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
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