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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com> wrote:
>
>  tried patching the latest stable kennel, 2.6.16.9 I thought, to
>  2.6.17.rc2 but got conflicts.

2.6.16.x is a branch, based on 2.6.16.

2.6.17-rcX is on the trunk.  The published diffs are against 2.6.16.

So you should have patched 2.6.16.


>  A few years ago Linus said he wanted to integrated the kgdb patch
>  but then stopped when he found our there were two patches. Now there
>  only seems to be one. Do you know why it's not being integrated into
>  the std linux kernel?

Nobody is doing the work to get the patches in order and merged up.  It'd
require a month or two moderately intense effort.