[LinuxPPS] Which patch to use?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>>>> I'm running stock Debian with a 2.6.18 kernel.
>>>> Please upgrade. 2.6.25.x?
>>> "apt-get upgrade" doesn't change this :-)
>> lynx www.kernel.org
> 
> Sorry for the miscommunication; I said later in that message:
> 
>>> Ok, so I picked the non-bis, non-ter one, and patched against 
>>> 2.6.24.7
>>> from kernel.org, and then ran make menuconfig and my screens look 
>>> like
>>> those on the wiki.
> 
> So I am patching against 2.6.24.7 ... thre is no patch available (yet?) 
> for 2.6.25.x ...

2.6.24.7 is OK for now.
-ter applies OK on 2.6.25. No hurry to go to .25 yet.

>> A p60 with 32 megs?
> 
> No, it's a SolarPC with 0.5GB :-)
> 
> I'll check in on it in the morning ...

If you already had 2.6.24.7 with the non-ter patch you should be able to
remove that patch (patch -R), patch with -ter and have the kernel ready
quicker.

Keep us updated!

Kind regards,
Udo