RE: Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

2001-03-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.26 "Hen, Shmulik" wrote: > Thanks. > It just struck me odd that the latest is 2.4.2 while the prepatches were > 2.4.3 so I figured there must be something I missed in between (my logic > told me that a 2.4.3 patch would be against a 2.4.3 something ;-). > It all depends on the name of the

Re: Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

2001-03-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote: > > Hi, > > According to http://www.kernel.org, the latest stable kernel version is > 2.4.2. The latest prepatch version is 2.4.3-pre3. > > In order to get a full 2.4.3-pre8 kernel do I have to: > > A. download linux-2.4.2.tar.gz and all the patch-2.4.3-preX.gz and apply

RE: Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

2001-03-26 Thread Hen, Shmulik
Thanks. It just struck me odd that the latest is 2.4.2 while the prepatches were 2.4.3 so I figured there must be something I missed in between (my logic told me that a 2.4.3 patch would be against a 2.4.3 something ;-). BTW, I haven't seen any announcements from Linus in this mailing list regard

Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

2001-03-26 Thread Hen, Shmulik
Hi, According to http://www.kernel.org, the latest stable kernel version is 2.4.2. The latest prepatch version is 2.4.3-pre3. In order to get a full 2.4.3-pre8 kernel do I have to: A. download linux-2.4.2.tar.gz and all the patch-2.4.3-preX.gz and apply them in succession or, B. download linux-