On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:52, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 14:42 4-2-2003 -0500, Miro, Felix wrote:
> >I'm having difficulty applying the 2.4.19 patch against 2.4.21 source. Our
> >product offering is going to be based on 2.4.21. We would like to include
> >XFS in our linux offering. Can you supply an XFS patch based on 2.4.21?
> >The problem I'm having is with files that have significant changes in 2.4.21
> >vs 2.4.19. The 2.4.19 patch doesn't relate at all in those cases.
>
> Fetch the current CVS tree. Recerse apply the kdb patch.
> Diff this tree against the vanilla 2.4.21 and you basically got about the
> same result.
>
> The thing is though. 2.4.21 is not out yet (according to kernel.org) and I
> don't remember seeing anything related to security holes either which would
> force a new release.
>
> It is not based on a XFS release like 1.1 or the 1.2pre snapshots and thus
> not as well tested.
cvs is the internal development tree, the 1.2pre code is actually a
few months behind it now for the most part. Of course that few months
may represent bugs being fixed, or bugs being introduced - it should
be the former.
There is also a patch here:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/weekly-snapshot-patch/linux-2.4.20-xfs-2003-01-26.patch.bz2
Steve
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