Linux 2.4.21

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Kurt Wall:

It's bad form, I know, to follow up my own post. Live with it.

> I start with a fresh 2.4.19 tarball:
> 
> $ tar -jxf linux-2.4.19.bz2
> $ find linux-2.4.19 -name \*rej -print | wc -l
>        0
> 
> Patch to 2.4.20:
> 
> $ bunzip2 -c patch-2.4.20.bz2 | patch -p0
> [...]
> $ mv 2.4.19 2.4.20
> $ find linux-2.4.20 -name \*rej -print
>        0
> 
> Patch to 2.4.21:
> 
> $ bunzip2 -c patch-2.4.21.bz2 | patch -p0
> [...]
> $ mv 2.4.20 2.4.21
> $ find linux-2.4.21 -name \*rej -print
>        0
> 
> Now apply the weekly snapshot patch (linux-2.4.21-core-xfs-1.3.0.patch.gz):
> 
> $ gunzip -c linux-2.4.21-core-xfs-1.3.0.patch.gz | patch -d linux-2.4.20 -p1
> [...]
> $ find linux-2.4.21 -name \*rej -print | wc -l
>        0
> 
> Well, hell, this time it worked. :-\ Figures.
> 
> I?ll report back after I?ve tried building and booting the new kernel.

The kernel wouldn't get past "make dep". So,

Reverse the last patch:

$ gunzip -c linux-2.4.21-core-xfs-1.3.0.patch.gz | patch -d linux-2.4.20 -p1 -R

Apply ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/weekly-snapshot-patch/linux-2.4.21-xfs-2003-06-13.patch.bz2:

$ bunzip -c linux-2.4.21-xfs-2003-06-13.patch.bz2 | patch -d linux-2.4.21 -p1
$ find linux-2.4.21 -name \*rej -print | wc -l
       0

Everything worked. I'm running 2.4.21 patched with support for XFS
as I write (see the X-Operating-System: header).

Kurt
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