Re: patch-2.6.9 against 2.6.8.1

[Jesper Juhl]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, T. Weyergraf wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just build 2.6.9 using the patch-2.6.9, as always. Previously,
> I was using 2.6.8.1 and i expected patch-2.6.9 to work on the
> 2.6.8.1 tree.

No, it applies to 2.6.8. The situation could arise that a 2.6.8.2 is 
released _after_ 2.6.9 and then having the 2.6.9 patch based on 2.6.8.1 
would be quite confusing.
Read all of this thread for the full story: 
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/0293.html


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Jesper Juhl

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