Re: Which patch

[Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de>]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:16, Jamie Krasnoo wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 13:37, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:32:24PM -0700, Jamie Krasnoo wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:50, Keith Owens wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:28:37 -0700, 
> > > > Jamie Krasnoo <krasnooj@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > >Looking at the list of patches to download for the 2.4.20 kernel I see a
> > > > >few of them are available. I'm not sure which one to use. Do I use rc3
> > > > >or the one with the most recent date on it?
> > > > 
> > > > I assume you mean the split patches in ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches.
> > > > It contains these directories
> > > > 
> > > > 2.4.20
> > > > 2.4.20-2002-11-29_01:21_UTC
> > > > 2.4.20-2002-12-18_02:00_UTC
> > > > 2.4.20-2003-01-14_00:43_UTC
> > > > 2.4.20-2003-02-05_23:39_UTC
> > > > 2.4.20-2003-03-19_04:55_UTC
> > > > 2.4.20-rc3
> > > > 
> > > > 2.4.20-rc3 is against Marcelo's 2.4.20-rc3 (release candidate) which
> > > > precedes 2.4.20 proper.  The 2.4.20*UTC directories are older versions
> > > > of the XFS patches against 2.4.20.  2.4.20 is the last XFS patch
> > > > against 2.4.20.  Remember that the README says
> > > > 
> > > >   The -all and -split patches are provided as a courtesy and are not supported.
> > > >   They are snapshots of the XFS CVS tree as of the specified date and time, the
> > > >   split patches may or may not be changed afterwards.  The main method of XFS
> > > >   distribution is via the XFS CVS tree, if you want an up to date version of XFS
> > > >   then use CVS.
> > > > 
> > > > 2.4.20 is quite old now, both from the kernel and XFS point of view, it
> > > > was last updated on April 7.  You should upgrade to 2.4.21 if possible.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > there are also 1.3-pre6 patches for 2.4.20 (not only for 2.4.21) on oss:
> > 
> > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.3/pre6
> > 
> > Christian
> 
> The patch I downloaded was the xfs-2.4.21-all-i386 patch. That is for
> 1.2 I hope.
> 
nope, it's more similar to 1.3pre. 

Christian