linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.4.35 tree abandoned/delayed?

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:10:58 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Tony Borras" <tonyb@...dev.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.35 tree abandoned/delayed?

On 19/07/07, Tony Borras <tonyb@...dev.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:50:10 +0200
> Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > [ first, please always keep people in CC on LKML since it's
> > very easy to
> >   miss a thread ]
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:23:57PM -0800, Tony Borras wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:20:06 +0200
> > > Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > could you please report what the problem was, in case it's
> > > > not fixed yet ?
> > >
> > > Ok, reproduced error at ./net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
> > >   line 436 changed label:
> > >                    errout -> err_inval
> >
> > I don't know where you downloaded 2.4.35-pre5 from, but I've
> > checked the sources and could not find any reference to
> > "errout" here in any version!
> >
> > Or what is possible is that your 2.4.34 kernel got corrupted
> > on your disk after applying any patch. Sometimes, some shell
> > scripts providede with some
>
> Negatory on that, Willy!
>
> Here is what I have verified:
>   At kernel.org:/pub/linux/v2.4
>
> file: patch-2.4.34.3.bz2 has the corruption at line 213:
>   goto errout
>
> That is where that came from, when I patched my 2.4.34 to arrive
> at 2.4.34.5, before applying the 2.4.35.rc5 patch!
>
That sounds wrong. To the best of my knowledge, the 2.4.35-rc5 patch
should be applied on top of 2.4.34, not on top of 2.4.34.5 ...

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