kernel patches

Constantinos Antoniou costas at MIT.EDU
Thu Dec 19 06:30:01 EET 2002


On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 16:27, Άγγελος Οικονομόπουλος wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 December 2002 21:00, Constantinos Antoniou wrote:
> > Kalispera,
> >
> > Skeftomai na kanw compile ton 2.4.20 (kyriws mpas kai dw kana fws me to
> > ACPI...). Thimamai, oti molis eixe prwtobgei, eixe ena
> > ext3-data-corruption bug, to opoio amesa ejontwthike.
> 
> @@ άμεσα. (checks archives) Την 1/12 ανακοινώθηκε το bug, 5/12 το fix.
> 
> > To erwtima einai, se aytes tis periptwseis ti ginetai? o 2.4.20 pou
> > einai twra sto kernel.org exei ayto to bug? H einai ok? Stin prwti
> > periptwsi (exei akoma to bug), prepei na brw to antistoixo patch.
> 
> φτιαχνεται το bug και το fix μπαίνει στο επόμενο prepatch (ναι, τώρα είναι 
> στον 2.4.21-pre1). ναι. οχι. οχι.
> 

Twra mperdeytika me ta nai/oxi, alla mallon den boithise kai o
kataigismos erwtisewn :)

> > Mporei kanenas na mou dwsei kanena direction gia ayto? Ta mona patches
> > pou belpw einai ta ac/dj. Den yparxoun kai pio incremental patches (dil.
> > mono to fix tou ext3 data corruption...)?
> 
> όχι δεν υπάρχουν. όχι ότι θα είχε και κανένα νόημα βέβαια.
> 

H poreia apo ton 2.4.20->2.4.21 einai mono bugfixing? An nai, symfwnw
(oti den tha eixe noima). An oxi omws, kai mpainoun kai features stin
poreia, den einai pithano kapoio pre* na exei men ftiajei to sygekrimeno
bug, alla na exei alla probs?

apo to http://kernel.org/prepatch.html:
"Prepatches may be poorly tested, and may in fact not work at all. Use
on your own risk;"

Costas

> και, όχι, παρά τα 5 όχι (6) _δεν_ είμαι αρνητικός (αλλά, να, υπάρχει και το 
> changelog στο kernel.org που αναφέρει ξεκάθαρα πότε μπήκε το fix).
> 
> -- 
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Constantinos Antoniou
Ph.D. Candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
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