Re: patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"

[Timo Kamph]

Viktor Horvath wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> today I patched myself up from 2.6.7 vanilla to 2.6.10 vanilla, but
> after all patches succeeded, "make menuconfig" shows "v2.6.8.1
> Configuration". Even worse, a compiled kernel calls in his bootlog
> himself "2.6.8.1". 

I guess you did somthing like this:

2.6.7 -patch-> 2.6.8 -patch-> 2.6.8.1 -patch-> 2.6.9 -patch-> 2.6.10.

And you didn't noticed that the 2.6.9 patch failed, because it is diffed 
against 2.6.8 and not 2.6.8.1!

If you do the patching without the 2.6.8.1 patch everything should be fine.


Timo
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