Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)
I'm by far not an expert but I have been looking into this also and that is my
understanding. Just use the 2.2.1 file. I just compiled and installed kernel
2.0.36. I had 2.0.34 and thought I was downloading a couple patches to bring me up
to 2.0.36 but I downloaded the whole kernel 2.0.35 and 2.0.36. Stupid but it worked
and so far I haven't found anything broken and I now have sound!
Best to you,
Kent
Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a hamm system. I've heard a lot
> of good things about 2.2.1, so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm currently
> downloading linux-2.2.1, but the directory also contains linux-2.2.0 and
> a patch-2.2.1 file. I was reading through the kernel-howto, and the
> first paragraph mentions that patches are incremental upgrades to the
> kernel. My question is then, if I ftp linux-2.2.1, then there is no need
> to get the patch, right? It's for those who have the linux-2.2.0
> revision and wish to upgrade to 2.2.1 without the need for another
> thirteen-meg file transfer. Am I reading this right?
>
> TIA
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