Re: Kernel patches

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "SN" == SN Diamond <Norman.Diamond@example.com> writes:

    SN> For some reason I had the opposite impression when reading an
    SN> earlier patch some time ago.  I didn't have time to do an
    SN> upgrade this way yet, so didn't get a correction for my
    SN> misreading until now.  Sorry.

Actually, I think that Alan Cox does his patches against the current
Linus kernel, and not against his previous patch version.  That might
be where you got the impression.  I know that I have seen patch
sequences that behave as you say (each patch gets bigger because
changes accumulate).


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