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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: legacy megaraid driver bug in mm-series
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:33:55 -0700
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"Ju, Seokmann" <sju@lsil.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> On Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:53 AM, Andrew Morton forwarded:
> > 2.6.11-mm1:	works
> > 2.6.11-mm4:	works
> > 2.6.12-rc5-mm1:	will not compile
> > 2.6.12-rc6-mm1:	works
> > 2.6.12-mm1:	will not compile megaraid driver
> > 2.6.12-mm2:	broken
> > 2.6.13-mm1:	broken
> > 
> > 2.6.12:		works
> > 2.6.13:		works
>
> Is there any precedence rule on the kernels?.
>

It's a bit weird, but the above are in chronological order.

Time order:

	2.6.12
	2.6.13-rc1
	2.6.13-rc2
	2.6.13
	2.6.14-rc1

etc.  And -mm kernels are just the current Linus kernel with -mmX appended.

> I wonder which kernel is latest in between 2.6.12 and 2.6.12-mmx.

2.6.12-mmX

> I assume 2.6.12-mmx is later than 2.6.12.

Correct.