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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: patch-o-matic-ng questions and remarks from newbie
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:23:10 +0100
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Johannes Graumann wrote:

>Thanks,
>
>I found those and have finally managed to get my kernel to compile.
>One general question of mine remains unsolved: is there - aside from
>trial and error - some way to figure out which patch in the
>patch-o-matic-ng plays well with what kernel?
>
They should have dependencies that are automatically checked,
but usually something like "kernel >= 2.6.7 is used", this of
course doesn't catch future versions that the patch won't work
with anymore.

Regards
Patrick