>
> Claus-Justus Heine <Heine@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
> > Bud Rogers <budr@twocups.tanet.net> writes:
> > > Are you getting close to the point when your ftape package can go back
> > > into the kernel source tree? I like having loadable modules for
> > > normal use, of course, but I would like to be able to build a kernel
> > > with built-in ftape support for disaster recovery.
> >
> > Yes, the patches are ready. Once the ftape home page is accessible
> > again (or mirrored somewhere else) you'll be able to fetch patches for
> > 2.0.31 and 2.1.62 from the web page.
>
> That's very good news. Is there any chance that the patches would
> work with slightly older kernels? I'm running 2.0.27 at home and
> 2.0.29 on the system machines.
This should be no problem, except maybe for some trivial cases
init/main.c
char/drivers/Makefile
Documentation/Configure.help
It these files didn't change between 2.0.27 and 2.0.31 then there
should be no problem.
Cheers
Claus