From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751942AbWIHA0K (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:26:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751944AbWIHA0K (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:26:10 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46484 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751942AbWIHA0I (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:26:08 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Abrahams Subject: Re: prepatching errors Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:26:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87k64fxkyt.fsf@pereiro.peloton> References: <87k64fz0nj.fsf@pereiro.peloton> <87pse7xl8o.fsf@pereiro.peloton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7/FP1XBwDGBV0j6Iqu7+QcZtDNk= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Abrahams writes: > Chase Venters 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