Re: prepatching errors

From: David Abrahams
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 20:17:31 EST


Chase Venters <chase.venters@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to apply the 2.6.18-rc6 prepatch (from
>> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.18-rc6.bz2)
>> to the 2.6.17.11 sources (from
>> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2) using
>
> David,
> The -rc series patches should be applied to the last mainline (not
> -stable) release. In your case, you want to patch 2.6.17.

Oooooh!

Thanks,
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

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