From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933559AbXCONkX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:40:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933563AbXCONkX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:40:23 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:1189 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933559AbXCONkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:40:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:40:02 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Syed Ahemed , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, msnyder@redhat.com, jjohnstn@redhat.com Subject: Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28 Message-ID: <20070315134002.GB16199@1wt.eu> References: <3d53b7120703131719y7bac2dccpb7bf8e32f7d45768@mail.gmail.com> <20070314055556.GP943@1wt.eu> <3d53b7120703141444k6484ccfeyd08cf60ecbbb894a@mail.gmail.com> <1173945186.25356.23.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1173945186.25356.23.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 03:14 +0530, Syed Ahemed wrote: > > > Getting RHEL's source ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/21/380 ) was an > > idea i thought about but then a download of the RHEL source from the > > following location was denied . > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/ and > > the rpmfind site. > > (Guess need to be a paid subscriber for that right ?) > > Strangely enough you try to download Fedora Core SRPMs whilst you speak > of RHEL. Try this one: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm > > Also, CentOS would have similar sources. Google could have informed you > on that. > > > I still wonder why there aren't any NPTL patches available in the > > non-redhat sites for kernels like 2.4.21 or more . > > Because most people, especially the ones on this mailing list have moved > on to 2.6 quite some time ago. May I suggest you do the same? ... or they stick to 2.4 for specific uses and do not need NPTL at all, which came late in the development cycle. Regards, Willy