From: "Herbert Pötzl" <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Daniel Pezoa <dpforos@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patches question
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:34:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818233432.GA29563@www.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818232539.86135.qmail@web11201.mail.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:39PM -0700, Daniel Pezoa wrote:
> Hello Kernel Community
>
> I have one linux distribution, with the kernel
> linux-2.4.21-pre5-ac3, and i want to know what is the
> purpose of this patches:
>
> patch-2.4.21-pre5
-preX means that it actually is a prerelease kernel
2.4.20 stable kernel release
-------------- new features for next release
2.4.21-pre1 prerelease 1
...
2.4.21-preN prerelease N
-------------- feature freeze ...
2.4.21-rc1 release candidate 1
...
2.4.21-rcM release candidate M
2.4.21 stable release
> patch-2.4.21-pre5-ac3
-acY means that it is one of Alan Cox's patchsets
adding a bunch of fixes/drivers/etc not yet
in the mainstream kernel ...
> Why should be are used, and where can i learn more
> about them??
http://www.kernel.org/
read the Changelogs, there you'll find some info ...
> Thanks for your help and Good luck!!
HTH,
Herbert
> Daniel Pezoa
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2003-08-18 23:25 Daniel Pezoa
2003-08-18 23:34 ` Herbert Pötzl [this message]
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2003-08-20 15:59 ` Daniel Pezoa
2003-08-20 16:33 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-24 5:11 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-24 5:16 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-20 16:58 John Bradford
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