Re: patches question

[Herbert Pötzl]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:39PM -0700, Daniel Pezoa wrote:
> Hello Kernel Community
> 
> I have one linux distribution, with the kernel
> linux-2.4.21-pre5-ac3, and i want to know what is the
> purpose of this patches:
> 
> patch-2.4.21-pre5
 -preX means that it actually is a prerelease kernel

  2.4.20	stable kernel release
 -------------- new features for next release
  2.4.21-pre1	prerelease 1
  ...
  2.4.21-preN	prerelease N
 -------------- feature freeze ...
  2.4.21-rc1	release candidate 1
  ...
  2.4.21-rcM	release candidate M
  2.4.21	stable release

> patch-2.4.21-pre5-ac3

 -acY means that it is one of Alan Cox's patchsets
      adding a bunch of fixes/drivers/etc not yet
      in the mainstream kernel ...

> Why should be are used, and where can i learn more
> about them??

 http://www.kernel.org/

 read the Changelogs, there you'll find some info ...
 
> Thanks for your help and Good luck!!

HTH,
Herbert

> Daniel Pezoa
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