From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:12:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Message-ID: <46A54406.8020605@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231957450.6355@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with.  I 
> recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier 
> or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some 
> patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc.  Then the result 
> was 
> cross checked with summary lists like this one: 
> 
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html
> 
> This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that 
> wasn't always trivial.
> 

Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever
existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux.

	-hpa