Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 17:10:35 -0400 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: Where's the patch to 2.2.0? |
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 04:24:54AM +0200, StarFire wrote: > Riley Williams schrieb: > > > this might be discusse already, but why is there no > > > patch-2.2.0-pre9-to-2.2.0 (or something like that)?? > > > My guess that '2.2.0-final' is '2.2.0' was obviously wrong. > > > > Why is it 'obviously wrong' then? > > > > Q> 23248 Tue Jan 26 01:41:00 1999 patch-2.2.0-final.bz2 > > Q> 10592549 Tue Jan 26 01:41:00 1999 linux-2.2.0.tar.bz2 > > > > Curious that the patch you declare to be wrong and the 2.2.0 > > kernel tarball have identical timestamps if they're for different > > kernels... > > > Hi! > So, have you tried to apply the 'patch-2.2.1' to a > 'patch-2.2.0-pre9'-patched kernel tree (The Makefile says '-final')? > It produces lots of rejects. And the diff -urN between > 'linux-2.2.0-pre9' and 'linux-2.2.0' I had to produce by myself > (which I expected to find as 'patch-2.2.0-pre9-to-2.2.0') > is not small, 23315 bytes in it's .bz2 version. > > And I have never seen a 'patch-2.2.0-final.bz2' ! > ^^^^^
it's in the v2.1 directory. 2.2.0-final needs to be applied to 2.2.0-pre9. 2.2.1 applies to 2.2.0-final (which doesn't have an EXTRAVERSION of -final)
-- arvind
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