Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:34:32 +0200 | From | Herbert Pötzl <> | Subject | Re: patches question |
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:39PM -0700, Daniel Pezoa wrote: > Hello Kernel Community > > I have one linux distribution, with the kernel > linux-2.4.21-pre5-ac3, and i want to know what is the > purpose of this patches: > > patch-2.4.21-pre5 -preX means that it actually is a prerelease kernel
2.4.20 stable kernel release -------------- new features for next release 2.4.21-pre1 prerelease 1 ... 2.4.21-preN prerelease N -------------- feature freeze ... 2.4.21-rc1 release candidate 1 ... 2.4.21-rcM release candidate M 2.4.21 stable release
> patch-2.4.21-pre5-ac3
-acY means that it is one of Alan Cox's patchsets adding a bunch of fixes/drivers/etc not yet in the mainstream kernel ...
> Why should be are used, and where can i learn more > about them??
http://www.kernel.org/
read the Changelogs, there you'll find some info ... > Thanks for your help and Good luck!!
HTH, Herbert
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