From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Capello Subject: Re: Patches version problem Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:13:26 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <404D98C6.6000305@pca.it> References: <4049CE4F.9090409@pca.it> <1078718463.2583.7.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1078718463.2583.7.camel-D2Zvc0uNKG8@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: ML ACPI-devel List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Len, on 03/08/04 05:01, Len Brown wrote: > Luca, > The 20040220 in the patch version is the ACPICA version number -- the > version of the core AML interpreter, and it is updated only upon > upstream updates to the interpreter. > > Sometimes the ACPI patch will update this number when it pulls a new > version of the interpreter, but more often it will not. thank you for the clear explanation, now I understood. > If you're really intent on getting the latest w/o any confusion, then > use bk rather than plain patches. details here: > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/README.ACPI No, until now and I hope for a long time I continue to use the latest ACPI release, so I'll catch a new ACPI patch only when you post a message like '[BKPATCH] ACPI for 2.6' on this list ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFATZjEVAp7Xm10JmkRAr0/AJ0f1J0+VRMXim5Fea2QKx7RU62sdQCeKmTN vmfetcQHdVt6GccszUqt7R4= =BTu5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click