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From: Timo Kamph <timo@kamph.org>
To: Viktor Horvath <ViktorHorvath@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:45:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F9610E.1000406@kamph.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106851254.720.4.camel@Charon>

Viktor Horvath wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> today I patched myself up from 2.6.7 vanilla to 2.6.10 vanilla, but
> after all patches succeeded, "make menuconfig" shows "v2.6.8.1
> Configuration". Even worse, a compiled kernel calls in his bootlog
> himself "2.6.8.1". 

I guess you did somthing like this:

2.6.7 -patch-> 2.6.8 -patch-> 2.6.8.1 -patch-> 2.6.9 -patch-> 2.6.10.

And you didn't noticed that the 2.6.9 patch failed, because it is diffed 
against 2.6.8 and not 2.6.8.1!

If you do the patching without the 2.6.8.1 patch everything should be fine.


Timo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27 18:40 patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1" Viktor Horvath
2005-01-27 18:54 ` linux-os
2005-01-27 21:10 ` Ken Moffat
2005-01-27 21:45 ` Timo Kamph [this message]
2005-01-27 23:52   ` Viktor Horvath

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