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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Ravinandan Arakali <ravinandan.arakali@neterion.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Leonid. Grossman (E-mail)" <leonid.grossman@neterion.com>
Subject: Re: Problem applying latest 2.6 kernel prepatch(2.6.12-rc1)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:06:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325010607.GK28536@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004001c530d4$034e99d0$3a10100a@pc.s2io.com>

* Ravinandan Arakali (ravinandan.arakali@neterion.com) wrote:
> I am trying to submit patches to our driver in the kernel. Since I need a
> copy of latest kernel
> for this, I installed the latest stable version(2.6.5.11). When I apply the
> latest prepatch (2.6.12-rc1)
> on top of this, I have the following problems:
> 1. On application of the prepatch, it reports errors. It looks like some of
> the changes that the
>     prepatch is trying to apply are already present in 2.6.5.11.
> 2. If I ignore these errors and complete the patching, the kernel
> compilation fails.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this problem or am I missing something ?

2.6.12-rc1 is against 2.6.11, so revert 2.6.11.5 patch and patch
forward to 2.6.12-rc1

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-25  0:45 Problem applying latest 2.6 kernel prepatch(2.6.12-rc1) Ravinandan Arakali
2005-03-25  1:06 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-03-25  1:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-25  2:16   ` Ravinandan Arakali

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