* patch-2.6.9 against 2.6.8.1
@ 2004-10-19 7:23 T. Weyergraf
2004-10-19 7:38 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-19 16:43 ` Jesper Juhl
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: T. Weyergraf @ 2004-10-19 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: kirk
Hi all,
I just build 2.6.9 using the patch-2.6.9, as always. Previously,
I was using 2.6.8.1 and i expected patch-2.6.9 to work on the
2.6.8.1 tree.
The patch-2.6.9 is somewhat "confused". Against 2.6.8.1, it fails
to change the SUBLEVEL field:
<snip>
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
-SUBLEVEL = 8
+SUBLEVEL = 9
EXTRAVERSION =
NAME=Zonked Quokka
</snip>
As one can see, the patch failes, since in 2.6.8.1, EXTRAVERSION is set
to 1. Also, patch-2.6.9 contains the small fixes in fs/nfs/file.c, that
were given in patch-2.6.8.1.
Is this the desired behaviour ? Based on the past, i expected new
patches to go against the latest stable kernel ( which is reported
2.6.8.1 by kernel.org ). Will - in the future - new patches skip the
4-digit kernelpatches ?
I do not intent to start a flamewar over whether 4-digit kernelreleases
are the right/wrong way to go. I am just looking for a consistent
behaviour, which is at this point only given, if you expect new
kernelreleases to go against the last 3-digit release.
Is that so ?
Regards,
Thomas Weyergraf
--
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* Re: patch-2.6.9 against 2.6.8.1
2004-10-19 7:23 patch-2.6.9 against 2.6.8.1 T. Weyergraf
@ 2004-10-19 7:38 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-19 16:43 ` Jesper Juhl
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Buddy Lucas @ 2004-10-19 7:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: T. Weyergraf; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:23:23 +0200 (CEST), T. Weyergraf <kirk@colinet.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just build 2.6.9 using the patch-2.6.9, as always. Previously,
> I was using 2.6.8.1 and i expected patch-2.6.9 to work on the
> 2.6.8.1 tree.
The patch is against 2.6.8.
Cheers,
Buddy
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* Re: patch-2.6.9 against 2.6.8.1
2004-10-19 7:23 patch-2.6.9 against 2.6.8.1 T. Weyergraf
2004-10-19 7:38 ` Buddy Lucas
@ 2004-10-19 16:43 ` Jesper Juhl
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Juhl @ 2004-10-19 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: T. Weyergraf; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, T. Weyergraf wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just build 2.6.9 using the patch-2.6.9, as always. Previously,
> I was using 2.6.8.1 and i expected patch-2.6.9 to work on the
> 2.6.8.1 tree.
No, it applies to 2.6.8. The situation could arise that a 2.6.8.2 is
released _after_ 2.6.9 and then having the 2.6.9 patch based on 2.6.8.1
would be quite confusing.
Read all of this thread for the full story:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/0293.html
--
Jesper Juhl
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