On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Andy Sy wrote:
> 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?
>
it simply means there were no more pre-patches
released after 2.5.8 got stable so the prepatch section
got stuck at 2.5.8-pre3 which *was* really a patch against
stable 2.5.7. looking at the date for 2.5.8-pre3 confirms
this. if it was a pre-patch for the latest 2.5 kernel, then
its timestamp would be more current than the latest 2.5 kernel timestamp.
pong
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