From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261261AbVABPnF (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:43:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261266AbVABPmY (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:42:24 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:49837 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261262AbVABPlD (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:41:03 -0500 Subject: Re: why there is different kernel versions from RedHat? From: Alan Cox To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux lover , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41D5FDCE.2090905@tmr.com> References: <20041231133525.47475.qmail@web52205.mail.yahoo.com> <41D5FDCE.2090905@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1104676568.14712.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:37:00 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sad, 2005-01-01 at 01:33, Bill Davidsen wrote: > linux lover wrote: > > Hi all, > > Where can i get special pathces used by RedHat to > > original kernels from www.kernel.org? > > Three step process > 1 - get the RH source RPM and unpack > 2 - get the kernel.org source of the same number > 3 - use diff to generate the patch. > > Optional step 4 - look at the size of it, shake your head and swear. If you do it such a dumb way then sure. Most of the patches in the 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 ones are post 2.6.9 fixes already in the base tree because of the lack of a stable base kernel tree in Linus new model. In order that we don't go collectively insane maintaining it those are broken out from the feature patches we needed. Generating a single giant diff loses all the useful info. Alan