incremental patches for 2.4*-ac* kernels

incremental patches for 2.4*-ac* kernels

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi all,

I think that most of us using modems begin to experience a little pain in
downloading latest Alan's patches since they're becoming to be really big (and
interesting).

Since I have an occasionnal access to a system equipped with a good line, I
began to make incremental patches for these kernels. These patches are about
60 kb instead of nearly 2 Mb. Those who are interested can download them from
this url :

   http://www-miaif.lip6.fr/willy/pub/linux-patches/ac/

Of course, they are not signed nor official, and people who want to use them
for production would better get them from the official sites.

At the moment, only ac9-to-ac10 and ac10-to-ac12 are provided.

To use them :
- extract official linux-2.4.1
- apply one of Alan's patches (acXX)
- apply one of these incremental patches (acXX-acYY)
-> you'll get a 2.4.1-acYY


Hope this will help people to test and report bugs.

Cheers,
Willy

Re: incremental patches for 2.4*-ac* kernels

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I think that most of us using modems begin to experience a little pain in
> downloading latest Alan's patches since they're becoming to be really big (and
> interesting).
> 
> Since I have an occasionnal access to a system equipped with a good line, I
> began to make incremental patches for these kernels. These patches are about
> 60 kb instead of nearly 2 Mb. Those who are interested can download them from
> this url :
> 
>    http://www-miaif.lip6.fr/willy/pub/linux-patches/ac/

Cool.

FWIW, people can also download Alan's patches and Linus' pre-patches
from my 'gkernel' CVS at sourceforge.  Instructions for anoncvs are on
the SourceForge home page, near the bottom:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/

Check out module 'linux_2_2' or 'linux_2_4'.  You --MUST-- use a branch
tag when checking out.  Branch tags are named based on kernel version,
ie.:

	REL_2_4_1_ac11
	REL_2_2_19_pre10
	REL_2_4_2_pre3

Using CVS allows easy diff'ing of the full kernel
> cvs -z9 rdiff -u -r REL_2_4_1_ac10 -r REL_2_4_1_ac11 linux_2_4

or just a part of the tree
> cvs -z9 rdiff -u -r REL_2_4_1_ac10 -r REL_2_4_1_ac11 linux_2_4/drivers/net

(as a side note, if you s/REL/hack/ in the above tag names, you get my
public CVS tree...)

Any questions, or anyone wanting my CVS import/merge scripts, just let
me know.

	Jeff