[Clfs-dev] Note on kernel in packages list

[Michael A. Peters]

I was looking through the svn book - and for the kernel, it has 2.6.26.5 
source tarball listed.

Personally I think it would be better to have the 2.6.26 source tarball 
and the 2.6.26.5 patch - because Linus no longer releases patches from 
minor version to minor version.

So if the user ever wants to update to, say, 2.6.26.9 by patch - the 
user will have to download the 2.6.26.5 patch anyway to reverse apply 
before applying the 2.6.26.9 patch. So downloading 2.6.26.5 source 
doesn't really make sense, at least not to me.

In fact, I'm not sure why Linus keeps releasing the minor point release 
updates to stable branch as tarballs.