Re: [linux-audio-dev] lowish-latency patch and toolchain

[Andrew Morton]

Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> 
> one more general question:
> 
> are the testN-preM patches incremental, or can i apply, say,
> test4-pre4 against a vanilla linux-2.4.0-test3 kernel ?
> what about alan's patches ?

It's complicated.  One approach is to download them all and patch
randomly until it works :)

linux-2.4.0-test1 + patch-2.4.0-test2.gz == linux-2.4.0-test2
linux-2.4.0-test2 + patch-2.4.0-test3.gz == linux-2.4.0-test3
linux-2.4.0-test3 + test4-pre3.gz == linux-2.4.0-test4-pre3

soon, patch-2.4.0-test4 will come out, and so you'll have to go back to
-test3 to apply this.


Alan's patches are off-stream, rooted at some earlier Linus version. 
Unless Linus is away somewhere I tend to ignore them - Linus and Alan
eventually get Linus's tree back in sync.