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

From: Viktor Horvath
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 19:01:53 EST


On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 22:45 +0100, Timo Kamph wrote:
> 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!

You're perfectly right. I thought "patch" would stop and ask me
something, but the error was silently buried under lots of "patching
file" lines.

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

It is! Thanks a lot!

Viktor.

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