From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262662AbVHDUTt (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:19:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262660AbVHDURu (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:17:50 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:42630 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262662AbVHDUQp (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:16:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:50:02 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jesper Juhl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , Sean Bruno , Lee Revell Subject: Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees Message-ID: <20050803115002.GC4038@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200508022332.21380.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508022332.21380.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 b) get asked this question less often. > So, I sat down and wrote such a document. > > Below is a patch to add a new file "applying-patches.txt" to Documentation/ > This document describes each of the trees and gives examples on how to apply > the various patches. > > 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 available at their fingertips. Perhaps including ketchup in linux/scripts makes sense? Places for download slowly change so it needs to be kept up-to-date, and it is *very* nice to use... Pavel -- teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be.