patches failing - is 2.6.9-rc1 patch against 2.6.8? (not 2.6.8.1)

[Johann Koenig]

I get the following when trying to get the 2.6.9-rc1 kernel:

jkoenig@note:/usr/src$ grep -i fail patch.rc1.info -A5 -B5
patching file Documentation/pci.txt
patching file Documentation/usb/sn9c102.txt
patching file Documentation/watchdog/pcwd-watchdog.txt
patching file MAINTAINERS
patching file Makefile
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
1 out of 13 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
patching file arch/alpha/Kconfig
patching file arch/alpha/Kconfig.debug
patching file arch/alpha/Makefile
patching file arch/alpha/boot/Makefile
patching file arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile
--
patching file fs/nfs/delegation.c
patching file fs/nfs/delegation.h
patching file fs/nfs/dir.c
patching file fs/nfs/direct.c
patching file fs/nfs/file.c
Hunk #2 FAILED at 74.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 91.
2 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/nfs/file.c.rej
patching file fs/nfs/inode.c
patching file fs/nfs/mount_clnt.c
patching file fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c
patching file fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c
patching file fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c
jkoenig@note:/usr/src$ 

and this for 2.6.9-rc1-mm4:

jkoenig@note:/usr/src$ grep -i fail patch.mm4.info -A5 -B5
patching file lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c
patching file lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.h
patching file lib/zlib_inflate/Makefile
patching file MAINTAINERS
patching file Makefile
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
1 out of 16 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
patching file mm/bootmem.c
patching file mm/filemap.c
patching file mm/hugetlb.c
patching file mm/Makefile
patching file mm/memory.c
jkoenig@note:/usr/src$ 

Full files available at
http://mental-graffiti.com/kernel/patch/

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