[arch-general] ARCH .y kernel releases do not match kernel.org's

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Sun Apr 24 02:38:25 EDT 2011


Am Sonntag 24 April 2011 schrieb Emmanuel Benisty:
> Hi,
> 
> I was having some sound issue with ARCH 2.6.38.3 stock kernel so I
> started to bisect it from Greg KH's 2.6.38.y stable tree.
> .38.2 was good and .38.3 was bad (so I thought) but I hadn't any
> single bad commit during bisecting. However, .38.4 /was/ bad. I could
> finally find the guilty commit (which is in .38.4) but couldn't
> understand why I was hit by this issue even with 2.6.38.3-ARCH. Then I
> diff'd both .38.3 patches and found out that Arch's one includes
> patches that are not in Greg's release. It seems we include patches
> that are still in -stable patch queue.
> Finally, I just have one question: is that normal? All I can say is
> that it made my bisecting session a real PITA. Please give me back my
> CPU cycles :P
> 
> Cheers.
> -- Emmanuel
The .3 contained some prepatches from the stable queue.
That is the explanation for it.

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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