Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-10 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:07:32 +0100 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/10/2007 4:00 PM, Lei W wrote: > > If now i have applied patch-2.6.19.1,how can i goto > > 2.6.20-rc4 ? > > $ cd linux/ > $ patch -p1 -R < patch-2.6.19.1 > $ patch -p1 < patch-2.6.20-rc4 for Lei W: cd lin

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-10 Thread Stefan Richter
On 1/10/2007 4:00 PM, Lei W wrote: > If now i have applied patch-2.6.19.1,how can i goto > 2.6.20-rc4 ? $ cd linux/ $ patch -p1 -R < patch-2.6.19.1 $ patch -p1 < patch-2.6.20-rc4 -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Akula2
On 1/9/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Depends on what you want to do. If you want a stable kernel to use in production you should probably pick the latest stable kernel I am a Linux user/developer in all my IT career which began in 1997. But always my goal to be a kernel developer

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Akula2 wrote: > Should I start compile/test/debug one-after-one in this fashion:- > > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc1 > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc2 > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc3 > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc4 Or linux-2.6.19 + testing/patch-2.6.20-rc1 = linux-2.6.20-rc1 linux-2.6.

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Akula2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This question might sound dumb for many, and to some annoying too ;-) It's OK if you don't do it too often ;-) [...] > I did understand till here. Should I start compile/test/debug > one-after-one in this fashion:- > > 2.6.19 source + patch-2.6.20-rc1 > 2.6.1

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 09/01/07, Akula2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, This question might sound dumb for many, and to some annoying too ;-) Am enterting into -rc Kernel (testing & analysis) & involvement with the kernel (contributing to patches). I have this doubt. I did refer to applying-patches in the ke

Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Akula2
Hello All, This question might sound dumb for many, and to some annoying too ;-) Am enterting into -rc Kernel (testing & analysis) & involvement with the kernel (contributing to patches). I have this doubt. I did refer to applying-patches in the kernel documentation, this is what I got:- These