Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262765AbVDAPeJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:34:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262759AbVDAPcC (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:32:02 -0500 Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54]:53124 "EHLO mailwasher-b.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262771AbVDAPb3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:31:29 -0500 Message-ID: <424D6948.4000500@mesatop.com> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:31:20 -0700 From: Steven Cole User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.0 (Multics) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml CC: Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH] Clarify -rc definition in Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 35 Gentlehackers, The day to clarify the real definition of "-rc" is finally here. Steven --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt.orig 2005-04-01 07:56:23.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/Documentation/feature-list-2.6.txt 2005-04-01 07:59:21.000000000 -0700 @@ -23,16 +23,21 @@ Applying patches. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - In 2.4 and previous kernels, the recommended way to apply patches was to use a command line such as ... gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0 In 2.6, Linus started adding an extra path element to the diffs, so using -p1 in the untarred 'to be patched' directory is necessary. +Release Candidates +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +- In 2.4 and previous kernels, -rc meant "release candidate". + In 2.6, -rc means "really churning", so even more testing is desired. + Known gotchas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the workarounds. - Blank screen after decompressing kernel? Make sure your .config has CONFIG_INPUT=y CONFIG_VT=y - 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/