Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:42:55 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch |
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Alistair John Strachan wrote: >> >>Nice writeup, but why not simply put a copy of >>Documentation/applying-patches.txt online and link to that? >>It contains more or less the same stuff you just wrote. > > It's certainly one possibility, but this file is at least 4x more verbose than > my summary. I aimed to write something instructional, rather than provide a > complete explanation of the "patch problem". > > If this issue is large enough to get its own page on kernel.org, then a more > complete description may indeed be justified. Comments? >
It'd be easy to make its own page, and then link it from the FAQ. Heck, the easiest might be to link it to the gitweb checkout of Documentation/applying-patches.txt, but having it be nicely HTML formatted would probably be better.
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