Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] ftape-3.04 | From | Claus-Justus Heine <> | Date | 10 Nov 1997 11:52:49 +0100 |
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Bud Rogers <budr@twocups.tanet.net> writes:
> > Claus-Justus Heine <Heine@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > > > Bud Rogers <budr@twocups.tanet.net> writes: > > > Are you getting close to the point when your ftape package can go back > > > into the kernel source tree? I like having loadable modules for > > > normal use, of course, but I would like to be able to build a kernel > > > with built-in ftape support for disaster recovery. > > > > Yes, the patches are ready. Once the ftape home page is accessible > > again (or mirrored somewhere else) you'll be able to fetch patches for > > 2.0.31 and 2.1.62 from the web page. > > That's very good news. Is there any chance that the patches would > work with slightly older kernels? I'm running 2.0.27 at home and > 2.0.29 on the system machines.
This should be no problem, except maybe for some trivial cases
init/main.c char/drivers/Makefile Documentation/Configure.help
It these files didn't change between 2.0.27 and 2.0.31 then there should be no problem.
Cheers
Claus
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