Re: Alan Cox ac-series kernel patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:15:08 +0000 (GMT)

> 1) How should the 2.2.0-ac1 patched kernel be regarded? As a 'fixed' production
> kernel, or as an experimental or development kernel?

I consider it production class. It is not tested to quite the same degree
vanilla 2.2.0 has now.

> 2) How do you apply the 2.2.0-ac1 patch correctly? I rooted my 2.2.0 source tree
> at /usr/src/linux.vanilla, did a cd to /usr/src, then did
>
> cat whatever/patch-2.2.0-ac1 | patch -p0 2>&1 | less

cd linux
patch -p1 <../patch-2.2.0-ac1

Alan

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