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Re: applying diffs.1.2.8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Longyear)
Fri Jun 2 10:50:50 1995
From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
To: ukd1@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 05:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: longyear@netcom.com, ukd1@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <"nz11.rz.un.645:02.06.95.12.14.48"@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> from "Bernd Eckenfels" at Jun 2, 95 02:14:26 pm
>
> According to Al Longyear:
> > > > Forgive the post, but I have been unable to figure out how to
> > > > apply the diffs.1.2.8 file. I see the 'linux.vanilla' and
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > 'linux' references, but after a couple of cuts I have not been
> > > > able to get things done. "patch <diffs.1.2.8" with a link
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > 'linux' to linux-1.2.8 just makes a mess...
> > >
> > > If you dont know how to apply them, you should better NOT do it. Those are
> > > developers Snapshots an on the Bleeding Edge of Development (i dont write
> > > Alpha :).
> >
> > I beg your pardon but you are incorrect. The 1.2 series kernels are
> > most definately NOT 'bleeding edge of development' systems. They are
> > the released 'stable' kernel. At the present time there is no
> > development kernel. That will come with the 1.3 series.
>
> The above Mentioned Patchfile is the NET3 Snapshot Release from Alan Cox
> against the 1.2.8 Kernel. The Patchfile you are talking about is named
> patch-1.2.8.gz. (linux.vanilla is used by Alan Cox, not Linus)
Then I am sorry. I was under the impression that the person was asking
about the patch from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8. If that is the case then he should
definitely apply the patch. Follow the instructions in the README file
in the kernel and do it.
If he was asking about Alan's pre-1.3 networking code, and he does not
know how to use patch, then it will be the least of his problems if he
try to use the networking update. Alan's new networking code is definitely
in the 'bleeding-edge' category.
Linus tends to call his previous stuff 'linux-1.2.7' and the new
directory simply 'linux'.
FWIW: The current, released, stable networking code is called NET3. It
succeded Net-2-Debugged, which succeded Net-2. I am not sure that Alan
has a name for his PRE-1.3 stuff yet, but if there is not one, it will
probably be called NET4.
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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