Re: Alan Cox ac-series kernel patches

Ralph Clark (rclark@virgosolutions.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:47:21 +0000


Alan Cox wrote:

> > 1) How should the 2.2.0-ac1 patched kernel be regarded? As a 'fixed' production
> > kernel, or as an experimental or development kernel?
>
> I consider it production class. It is not tested to quite the same degree
> vanilla 2.2.0 has now.
>
> > 2) How do you apply the 2.2.0-ac1 patch correctly? I rooted my 2.2.0 source tree
> > at /usr/src/linux.vanilla, did a cd to /usr/src, then did
> >
> > cat whatever/patch-2.2.0-ac1 | patch -p0 2>&1 | less
>
> cd linux
> patch -p1 <../patch-2.2.0-ac1
>
> Alan

Thank you o great one (fawn, bow, scrape, leaving the room backwards) :-)

...and thank you to all the others who responded. Gee, what a nice list.

Ralph

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