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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:50:09 +0200
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From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: 2.4.6 patch does not apply cleanly to 2.4.6
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At 16:21 10-7-2001 +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>The 2.4.6 patch didn't apply cleanly to a pure kernel source ..
>
>   ./fs/buffer.c.rej
>   ./fs/namei.c.rej
>   ./mm/vmscan.c.rej
>
>And in any case the patch I got hold of
>
>    linux-2.4.6-xfs-cvs-06212001.patch
>
>contains all kinds of cvs and acl cmd extranea. Is there a clean kernel
>patch hanging around somewhere?

This was a snapshot of the CVS tree in between -pre merging.
It was never really tested that much AFAIK.

>The .rej's themselves are easy to mend, except for buffer.c, in which I
>can't find a likely referant for the failed block. And in any case
>compilation of the result fails in aic7xxx!

See FAQ. This is not related to the XFS patch.

>So I would guess random other patches have been applied. Fair 'nuff.
>Just give me a clue what they are! Moving the 2.4.5 aic7xxx_reg.h
>across almost does the trick, but not quite. aic7xxx_seq.h is also
>needed. That seems to fix it. But what happened?

The FAQ has a nic entry for this.

CHeers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.