David,

It seems to me that the latest patch/diff file you reported (as "kernel
update (relative to 2.4.0-test9)" in your email dated "Tue, 31 Oct 2000
00:55:03") to be available under 
"ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/" has been installed with
the same/old "linux-2_4_0-test9-ia64-001004_diff.[gz,bz2]" name, and
overidded the older file version (only the file time-stamp attest of the
update/new version). 

Its content is ok (ie "linux-001030.diff") at least for its time-stamp'ed
name. But newer ("linux-001030.diff") is half size (1219Kb vs 2028Kb) of the
older ("linux-2.4.0-test9-ia64-001004.diff") !!

All of this is a little bit confusing.

So what is the exact process to apply this last patch, just a next diff to
be applied on-top/in-addition of  the Base "-test9" tar-ball + the old
patch, or is it a full replacement patch for the old one to be again applied
on a virgin Base "-test9" Kernel source tree ??

Thank's.

Bruno.

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