From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: prepatching errors
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:26:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k64fxkyt.fsf@pereiro.peloton> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pse7xl8o.fsf@pereiro.peloton>
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
> Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to apply the 2.6.18-rc6 prepatch (from
>>> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.18-rc6.bz2)
>>> to the 2.6.17.11 sources (from
>>> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2) using
>>
>> David,
>> The -rc series patches should be applied to the last mainline (not
>> -stable) release. In your case, you want to patch 2.6.17.
>
> Oooooh!
BTW, it might be a good idea to put a link to the latest mainline
sources right on the front page of kernel.org where I found the
prepatch. Along with note in the prepatch row saying "apply to 2.6.17
sources," that would have saved y'all having to answer my dumb query.
Thanks again,
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-08 0:01 David Abrahams
2006-09-08 0:04 ` Chase Venters
2006-09-08 0:20 ` David Abrahams
2006-09-08 0:26 ` David Abrahams [this message]
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