On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 12/29/2017 06:26 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:14:02PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > >> On 12/29/2017 05:40 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> And how do you apply the patches? Or are you using the linux-stable-rc > >>> kernel tree? > >>> > >>> thanks, > >> > >> I cloned Linus repository over a year ago, added the stable (yours) as a remote repo and do since that time: > > > > Which exact repo of "mine" did you use here? > > ~/devel/linux $ cat .git/config > [core] > repositoryformatversion = 0 > filemode = true > bare = false > logallrefupdates = true > [remote "origin"] > url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > [branch "master"] > remote = origin > merge = refs/heads/master > [remote "stable"] > url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/stable/* This did not have the 4.14.10-rc tree in it, but now, yes, that will show up. > >> as common user: > >> > >> cd ~/devel/linux/ ; git diff v4.14.9..v4.14.10 | (cd /usr/src/linux && sudo patch -p1) > > > > There was no 4.14.10 in my repo at the time, so how did this get created? > > Sure, I started with 3.x, the command line above is from today few minutes after you pushed out the tag Be careful with 'patch', odds are it is not keeping the permissions that git is telling it to use. good luck! greg k-h