[OpenWrt-Users] why is a 2.6.25.10 build pulling in 2.6.26 content?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  ok, now i'm confused.  to follow along with the patch processing
order, i did a fresh build selecting 2.6 for my WL500GP (which,
underneath, uses 2.6.25.10) and saved the output from "make V=99" so i
could follow the steps.

  what i noticed was that 2.6.26  content was being pulled in -- the
2.6.26 tarball was being untarred for (apparently) the headers, then
the directory target/linux/generic-2.6/patches-2.6.26 was being
applied, and so on.

  i don't understand this -- why is a build that uses the 2.6.25.10
kernel hauling in 2.6.26 content for *anything*?

rday
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