On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:17:21AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > http://www.kernel.org/prepatch.html defines it as "Prepatches are the > equivalent to alpha releases for Linux...".
And that's exactly what it is, AFAIK. > www.kernel.org lists 2.5.8-pre3 and 2.5.34 as the latest prepatch and > beta versions of the kernel. What is throwing me off is why is the > prepatch for 2.5 listed at 2.5.8? Does this mean that if they are > proven ok for users of 2.5.8 it will be forward ported to 2.5.34? But > why are these patches being tested under 2.5.8 instead of the latest > beta? I believe that this coincides with Linus's shift to BitKeeper. I don't think he's been releasing pre-patches, since. The latest is 2.5.34, and I'm sure because the XFS team keeps up-to-date with the 2.5 tree and they recently merged up to 2.5.34. For a more accurate example of a pre-patch, see 2.4.20-pre6, versus the latest release 2.4.19. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
