Re: questions about patches and drivers

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 11:34:27 EST


Rikard Westlund wrote:
> 1.I have installed the patch-2.3.99-pre1/2 and the pre3-3 (trying to get my
> tulip quadport card to work). Now there is some new patches, like
> pre3-4/5/6. I tried to add these but there were some files that got
> rejected. Should these files not be added like "normal" patches, in
> numerical order??

Note, only the latest patch should be applied.

> 2.All these pre3-X patches, will they form a patch-2.3.99-pre3 patch?

The latest prepatch becomes the release patch, after a while...

> 4.I know that Jeff Garzik is working on the tulip drivers, is there
> anyone working/responsible on/for the eepro100.c driver?

Check the MAINTAINERS file in the source tree :)

EEPRO100 NETWORK DRIVER
P: Andrey V. Savochkin
M: saw@saw.sw.com.sg
S: Maintained

-- 
Jeff Garzik              | Tact is the ability to tell a man 
Building 1024            | he has an open mind when he has a
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       | hole in his head.  (-random fortune)

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