patching clarification (linux-2.6.12-rc3)

["John Que" <qwejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I had build linux-2.6.12-rc3 from a tar file.

It passes successfully.
Now I want to apply the inotify patch of Robert Love.

I look under:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/v2.6

I see many version theres.

In 0.23 there are 4 patches which seems relavant:
                                        -
inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-rc3-1.patch
inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-rc3-2.patch
inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-rc3-3.patch
inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-rc3-4.patch

What I do not understand here is this:
Is  inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-rc3-1.patch    can ve applied
on linux-2.6.12-rc3? or should I apply first
a pacth named linux-2.6.12-rc3-1?

The same is for the 3 other paches : how should I apply them ?

Is this "enumeration" ,so to speak, means that I need to patch first inotify 
patch 1 , then inotify patch 2 ,
than inotify patch 3 ,and than inotify patch 3 ; or does it mean that the 
kernel itself , inux-2.6.12-rc3,
has 4 correspondong patches , and in order to patch inotift I nees to take 
an inorify patch number
which is the same as  the inux-2.6.12-rc3 patch number ?

Regards,
John

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