Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> I downloaded the 2.4.20 source from ftp.debian.org, uncompressed it,
> un-tarred it. Then I downloaded patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 from the same
> site, and tried:
>
> patch -p1 < patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2
>
> at the top of the /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/ tree.
As I understand it, patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 applies against Marcelo's
2.4.20-pre10 release, not 2.4.20 itself. You should be using patches
whose names are of the form patch-2.4.20-ac*: patch-2.4.20-ac2 seems to
be the latest at the moment.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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