| To: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: patch howto??? |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:06:54 +0000 |
| Cc: | ksimach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <1035841498.8560.17.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from sandeen@xxxxxxx on Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:44:58PM -0600 |
| References: | <3DBDAC4A.40001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <1035841498.8560.17.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:44:58PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Patching Red Hat (or other vendor kernels) is tough, and non-trivial. > > In general, you only want to use a patch against the codebase it was > generated from. > > We have patches against "vanilla" linux kernels from Linus & Marcello, > and instructions for using these patches are at > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/source.html > > We also have some prerelease kernel RPMs based on Red Hat 8.0 / > 2.4.18-17 kernels, at > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.2pre2/kernel_rpms/RPMS/ Note that 2.4.18-17.7x is also the recommend errata kernel ofor RH7.x, so if you want RedHat's latest updates _and_ XFS use the kernel Eric pointed you to.. |
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