Bug#341104: linux-patch-debian-2.6.14: dropping EXTRAVERSION from official kernel patches

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:00:24PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:09:41PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > The suggestion was also to avoid name clashes, i.e. 
> > > linux-patch-debian-2.6.14_2.6.14-2_all.deb -> applied on 2.6.14
> > > linux-patch-debian-2.6.14_2.6.14-3_all.deb -> applied on 2.6.14.2
> > > linux-patch-debian-2.6.14_2.6.14-4_all.deb -> applied on 2.6.14.3
> > > 
> > > thus, compiling with one of the three versions should not result each
> > > time in vmlinuz-2.6.14 but vmlinuz-2.6.14[.extraversion]
> > 
> > This is some magic Bastian Blank played with, Bastian, could you comment on
> > this ? 
> > 
> 
> Some more news:
> 
> 1) kernels compiled from pristine source + applied debian patches of
> debian source resulted in the same name for the kernel image
> 
> 2) I got a number of crashes (total freeze) with such kernel. The
>    personnal best is less than 5 minutes :-{. A 2.6.14.3 pristine
>    (linux patches - no debian patches) does not exhibit this
>    behaviour, AFAIK (currently stress testing it - no problems)

Could you please try the debian 2.6.14-4 linux-image kernels please ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther