Re: upgrade stable kernel

[Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey how are you im olaso new in Linux kernel but the Linux Kernel Tester;s Guide (http://lwn.net/Articles/238838/) help me a lot.  IN this guide in the beginning explain how to do what you need, hope this help you. 

Victor Rodriguez                        Mexico

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day

<rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Belisko Marek wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day
>> <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Belisko Marek wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm using 2.6.33.6 stable kernel for development. I would like to
>> >> switch to 2.6.34 stable kernel. I'm using git. Is there some easy
>> >> way how to do that?
>> >>
>> >> I try to merge 2.6.34/master to my 2.6.33 with git but merge failed
>> >> and changes are so huge. Or should I create patch for my 2.6.33
>> >> clone 2.6.34 and apply patch to 2.6.34 kernel?
>> >
>> >  just use git to check out the 2.6.34 tag before building.  or is
>> > there something more complicated happening here?
>
>> I'm not using mainline kernel but stable kernels which has different
>> git repos for every stable kernel. In mainline there is only rc
>> series not stable.
>
>  that's not true -- my git repo clearly shows a tag of "v2.6.34".
> why wouldn't that be what you want?

git describe in mainline show: v2.6.34
git describe in stable kernel repo shows for e.g .2.6.33 kernel:  v2.6.33.6

Last digit is incremented with new update of stable tree which is done
by greg k-h.

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