Hi Randy,

On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:22:05 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:18 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> > News:  I am now providing patches relative to the latest tag in Linus'
> > tree.  I propose to stop providing complete tar balls as they are so
> > large and people will have recent versions of Linus's tree anyway (I
> > assume).  The patches will be named "patch-<upstream tag>-<next tag>".
> 
> Oh well.  For the record, I don't mind using patches instead of
> complete tarballs, but I would prefer that the patches be relative
> to something like a daily -git snapshot so that using git is not
> required at all.

They will be relative to a tag that Linus adds to his tree and those
tagged trees are always available as tar balls.  i.e. yesterdays patches
were relative to 2.6.26-rc1, today's (and until rc3 comes out) will be
relative to 2.6.26-rc2. Or I could do them against the daily -git
snapshots (or both).  Either way it would cut down on the amount of stuff
I am distributing. Currently there is already about 6G of linux-next
tarballs.

I certainly don't want to make it harder for those who are doing such
good job of testing. Does that make it clearer?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/