Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275222AbTHRXeX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:34:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275227AbTHRXeX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:34:23 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.AT ([212.16.59.250]:21474 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275222AbTHRXeV (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:34:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:34:32 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Daniel Pezoa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patches question Message-ID: <20030818233432.GA29563@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Pezoa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030818232539.86135.qmail@web11201.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030818232539.86135.qmail@web11201.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1193 Lines: 45 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:39PM -0700, Daniel Pezoa wrote: > Hello Kernel Community > > I have one linux distribution, with the kernel > linux-2.4.21-pre5-ac3, and i want to know what is the > purpose of this patches: > > patch-2.4.21-pre5 -preX means that it actually is a prerelease kernel 2.4.20 stable kernel release -------------- new features for next release 2.4.21-pre1 prerelease 1 ... 2.4.21-preN prerelease N -------------- feature freeze ... 2.4.21-rc1 release candidate 1 ... 2.4.21-rcM release candidate M 2.4.21 stable release > patch-2.4.21-pre5-ac3 -acY means that it is one of Alan Cox's patchsets adding a bunch of fixes/drivers/etc not yet in the mainstream kernel ... > Why should be are used, and where can i learn more > about them?? http://www.kernel.org/ read the Changelogs, there you'll find some info ... > Thanks for your help and Good luck!! HTH, Herbert > Daniel Pezoa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/