simple question about patches

2001-03-03 Thread davidge
Hi, i've got a newbie question about patches: Are the pre* patches ( and i guess also the ac* ones) applied against the last release of the kernel or against the previous patch? I mean, when 2.4.3pre2 will come out, i need to get also the pre1 patch? thanks David Gómez "The question of whethe

Re: simple question about patches

2001-03-03 Thread Rich Baum
On Saturday 03 March 2001 12:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, i've got a newbie question about patches: > Are the pre* patches ( and i guess also the ac* ones) applied against the > last release of the kernel or against the previous patch? I mean, when > 2.4.3pre2 will come out, i need to get

Re: simple question about patches

2001-03-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
David G\363mez writes: > Hi, i've got a newbie question about patches: > Are the pre* patches ( and i guess also the ac* ones) applied against the > last release of the kernel or against the previous patch? I mean, when > 2.4.3pre2 will come out, i need to get also the pre1 patch? Really, I woul

Re: simple question about patches

2001-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Long ago, pre* and ac* patches were rare. Patches went from one Umm wrong. -ac patches for 2.2 regularly did one a day > line-by-line before the next one came out. Patches always applied > easily with the (pre-POSIX?) patch command. Version numbers made patch is Larry Wall > Pre-patches go l

Re: simple question about patches

2001-03-03 Thread Alexander Viro
[cc trimmed] On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Long ago, pre* and ac* patches were rare. Patches went from one > > Umm wrong. -ac patches for 2.2 regularly did one a day > > > line-by-line before the next one came out. Patches always applied > > easily with the (pre-POSIX?) patch comman

Re: simple question about patches

2001-03-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:14:18PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > David G\363mez writes: > > > Hi, i've got a newbie question about patches: > > Are the pre* patches ( and i guess also the ac* ones) applied against the > > last release of the kernel or against the previous patch? I mean, when