Kernel 2.6.30

[Antonio Olivares]

> >>> If kernel.org releases 2.6.30.1, Are there any
> delta *.tar.gz's that
> >>> one can download instead of downloading
> >> the full kernel source again to update to
> 2.6.30.1? I have been
> >> yearning to ask this question, but never had the
> >> courage or the determination to do so. I generally
> follow Fedora
> >> kernels, but sometimes I get eager to run
> >> the latest and greatest. I run rawhide too, but
> they are at
> >> 2.6.30-6.fc12. Someone told me that there were
> patches
> >> that one could download and recompile to get the
> latest version, but
> >> they don't tell me how and there does not seem to
> >> exist documentation as to how to do it. All of
> this in case Fedora
> >> stays a little bit behind, they are doing the
> right
> >> thing though testing and making sure that the
> kernels work :), and
> >> that the changes upstream do not affect the
> endusers in a bad way.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Antonio
> >>
> >> How to patch the Linux kernel
> >>
> >> Download the latest patch file for the kernel
> you're running - You'll
> >> see it on the kernel.org website.
> >>
> >> Put the patch file in the directory with the
> original, unpatched
> >> kernel source. Run "make mrproper". Run bunzip to
> uncompress the patch
> >> file. Run patch -P1 < "patch-file-name"
> >>
> >> Now your kernel is patched to the latest version.
> Do your kernel build.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.30.1.bz2

Patch is out for 2.6.30.1, how exactly do I do it.  I run
patch -P1 < patch-2.6.30.1.bz2 in /linux-2.6.30 directory where the 2.6.30 source was?
Do I extract the patch?  
This is where I need more guidance as I have not done it. Usually I just get the entire thing 2.6.30.1.tar.bz2 but now I don't have access to high speed connection and I just want to see if I can do it.

Thanks in advance,

Antonio