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Re: How to apply a patch?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Thu Mar 18 19:35:16 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:48:21 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Steve Frampton <frampton@alcdsb.on.ca>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Steve Frampton wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Steve Frampton wrote:
>
> > I've got a pristine 2.0.36 kernel source tree, and I would like to patch
> > the aic7xxx driver to the latest 5.1.11 version. I found the patch at
> > ftp.varesearch.com:/pub/mirrors/aic7xxx-bsd/5.1.11/
>
> Apparently the patch wouldn't work 'cause the kernel-source-2.0.36-3 RPM
> file isn't exactly "pristine sources". :p
>
> I guess I'll stick to the old driver for now and enjoy the many and varied
> system crashes. :-(
>
> (I *refuse* to use tarballs just on principle.)
The 5.1.12 driver is the latest available and it includes one very important
SMP fix for 2.0.x. The 2.2.x series version of the driver didn't have the
same bug.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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