Linux Kernel – How to Get a Patch Set from the Mailing List

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I don't subscribe to the linux-kernel mailing list, but I want to get a set of patches that were posted a few weeks ago and apply them to my kernel for testing. I'm very familiar with patching, building, etc. My question is, what's the best way to get a copy of this patch set? It's not applied to any Git repo that I'm aware of, it's just been posted to the mailing list for discussion.

I find a number of sites that archive the linux-kernel mailing list and I can see the set of patches there, but none of these sites have any method (that I can find) of downloading the raw email so I can use "git apply" or "patch" or whatever. Just copy/pasting the content from my web browser seems like it will not be very successful due to whitespace differences etc.

How do people manage this?

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http://marc.info/ has a link for each message to get the raw body, and https://lkml.org/ has (in the sidebar) links to download any contained diffs.

There are also archives with NNTP access that may provide raw messages, though I haven't tried this.

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