>>> 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...
> 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.
It will, since that's the wrong version to patch from. Based on the
tarball and patch files on the SunSITE uk mirror at...
ftp://SunSITE.Org.UK/Mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
...I would assume the following to be the correct sequence:
Q> 10534303 Jan 13 22:05 v2.1/linux-2.2.0-pre7.tar.bz2
Q> 199328 Jan 19 01:52 v2.1/patch-2.2.0-pre8.bz2
Q> 10538971 Jan 19 01:52 v2.1/linux-2.2.0-pre8.tar.bz2
Q> 173903 Jan 21 06:42 v2.1/patch-2.2.0-pre9.bz2
Q> 10588011 Jan 21 06:42 v2.1/linux-2.2.0-pre9.tar.bz2
Q> 23248 Jan 26 01:41 v2.1/patch-2.2.0-final.bz2
Q> 10592549 Jan 26 01:41 v2.2/linux-2.2.0.tar.bz2
Q> 22778 Jan 28 20:56 v2.2/patch-2.2.1.bz2
Q> 10610697 Jan 28 20:56 v2.2/linux-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Q> 86608 Feb 23 02:58 v2.2/patch-2.2.2.bz2
Q> 10625888 Feb 23 02:58 v2.2/linux-2.2.2.tar.bz2
> 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.
It should be 23248 bytes, as per the listing above...
> And I have never seen a 'patch-2.2.0-final.bz2' !
> ^^^^^
{Shrug} Try the URL set given above, it's definately there...
Best wishes from Riley.
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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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