On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:12:28PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> Do you bother with the gentoo patches?
Only the Kconfig patch that gives quick access to gentoo required configs
is really useful, the rest I would call minor. If you copy your config
from gentoo-sources to the git tree, the required ones will already be
active you can skip genpatches altogether.
> I have the kernel tree and none of the tags say longterm,
The tags don't say longterm, the website (kernel.org) says which releases
are longterm support ones.
> do I have the wrong tree or something? The url I have is
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
That's the development tree, if you want the stable/longterm releases use
this one:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
You should be able to add it to your existing tree using something like:
git remote add stable <url>
git fetch stable
although it does take a while ;)
