Re: more bugs
On Fri 11 Sep 1998, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:22:07 +0200, you scribbled:
>
> <snip alan cox patches info>
>
> >He's currently at pre-patch-6, which I'm running on my intel, but my
> >alpha is still at pre-patch-2.
> >
> i had a quick look at the site and am confused about what to use. i take it
> one gets a vanilla kernel source, untars it, then patches these over the top
> like a normal patch?
You indeed take a vanilla 2.0.35, and patch it with exactly ONE of these
patches.
> the other question is, which one to use? is a patch-2.x.xx-pre2 an earlier
> revision than a patch-2.x.xx-pre6 ?
No, the higher the number, the newer it is. I'm still using pre-patch-2,
as that works fine for me, and I can't be bothered :-) Try the newest
patch by all means (and complain to Alan Cox if it doesn't work).
Paul Slootman
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