Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

Post by Hen, Shmuli » Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:30:06



Thanks.
It just struck me odd that the latest is 2.4.2 while the prepatches were
2.4.3 so I figured there must be something I missed in between (my logic
told me that a 2.4.3 patch would be against a 2.4.3 something ;-).

BTW, I haven't seen any announcements from Linus in this mailing list
regarding new versions, just the updates on the web site and Alan's release
notes saying he's merging with 2.4.3xx. Are those announcements being posted
somewhere else now ?

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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:33 PM
To: Hen, Shmulik

Cc: 'LKML'
Subject: Re: Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to
the late st prepatch version ?

Hello Hen, Shmulik,

Once you wrote about "Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version
to the late st prepatch version ?":
HS> According to http://www.kernel.org, the latest stable kernel version is
HS> 2.4.2. The latest prepatch version is 2.4.3-pre3.
HS>
HS> In order to get a full 2.4.3-pre8 kernel do I have to:
HS>
HS> A. download linux-2.4.2.tar.gz and all the patch-2.4.3-preX.gz and apply
HS> them in succession or,
HS> B. download linux-2.4.3.tar.gz (exists ?) and then apply the all patches
or,
HS> C. download linux-2.4.3-pre7.tar.gz (exists ?) and apply only
HS> patch-2.4.3-pre8.gz ?

Download 2.4.2 and then apply 2.4.3-preX (latest) on it... that's it.
You might want to visit http://kernelnewbies.org .  They have some good docs
there.

--
 Best regards,
 Leonid Mamtchenkov
 System Administrator

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Q: How do I get from the latest stable kernel version to the latest prepatch version ?

Post by J . A . Magallo » Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:20:03



Quote:> Thanks.
> It just struck me odd that the latest is 2.4.2 while the prepatches were
> 2.4.3 so I figured there must be something I missed in between (my logic
> told me that a 2.4.3 patch would be against a 2.4.3 something ;-).

It all depends on the name of the patch. Usually, the '-preXX' patches
are 'previews' of the thing, so a 2.4.3-pre8 is 'preview 8 of what could
be 2.4.3', so as 2.4.3 still does not exist, the patch applies on 2.4.2.

On the other way, the Alan Cox series  is named 2.4.2-acXX, because they
add features to test to 2.4.2 that anybody knows if will end on an 'official'
kernel. Perhaps if a bugfix-feature that appears in 2.4.2-acX is ok, it
can end up in the official preview 2.4.3-preY for the next kernel.

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Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac24 #1 SMP Sat Mar 24 12:40:29 CET 2001 i686

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In Linux 2.6.14 the following version of Intel pro e1000 (gigabit)
ethernet driver is included.

#define DRV_VERSION                "6.0.60-k2"DRIVERNAPI

yet, i note that at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42302&package_i...

it is shown that  driver VERSION 6.2.15 is out as of Oct 13, 2005. The
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Can anyone comment on what is the process by which newer version of
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I owuld like to try newer version of the drivers since I am having
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options e1000 InterruptThrottleRate=0,0,0,0,0,0 TxIntDelay=0,0,0,0,0,0
TxAbsIntDelay=0,0,0,0,0,0 RxAbsIntDelay=0,0,0,0,0,0

with the driver that is in 2.6.14 standard release.  I tried to use the
latest version of the driver by merely substituting files under
drivers/net/e1000, but I get lots of the following messages on the
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