From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263018AbTDNOK6 (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:10:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263204AbTDNOK6 (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:10:58 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:5046 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263018AbTDNOK4 (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:10:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:22:35 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: James Bourne Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy Message-ID: <20030414142235.GC10347@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030414134603.GB10347@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 April 2003 07:56:45 -0600, James Bourne wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Jörn Engel wrote: > > On Mon, 14 April 2003 07:34:54 -0600, James Bourne wrote: > > > > > > This patch has also been added to the update patch available at > > > http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/current-updates/linux-2.4.20-updates.patch > > > > > > This patch includes the ptrace patch, tg3 patch, and ext3 patches. It also > > > changes the EXTRAVERSION to -uv2. > > > > Privately, I have introduced a variable FIXLEVEL for this. The > > resulting kernel version is 2.4.20.2 instead of 2.4.20-uv2, which imo > > is more suiting for a fixed stable kernel. > > > > Are you interested in this patch? > > Sure, if you have the patch already please send it along. I think this was > suggested once before as well. Must have lost it, but it was simple to recreate. :) The fixlevel must also include the leading dot, so it will fold into nothing for normal (non-fixed) kernels. Marcelo, would/should this be included in Mainline as well? Jörn -- Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Doug MacIlroy --- linux-2.4.20/Makefile~FIXLEVEL 2002-11-29 00:53:16.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.4.20/Makefile 2003-04-14 16:14:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 +FIXLEVEL = EXTRAVERSION = -KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) +KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(FIXLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/) KERNELPATH=kernel-$(shell echo $(KERNELRELEASE) | sed -e "s/-//g")