Mark Post wrote:

(I'll leave it to Arnd or Martin to answer the details, but just a couple
of general comments ...)

>1. You're using names for patches that aren't publicly known, such as "The
>multicast notifier patch - linux-2.6.5-s390-04-26-april2004.diff"

Huh?  That's straight off developerWorks; go to the April 2004 recommended
download page, click on linux-2.6.5-s390-04, click on Download for the
per-problem patches, unpack the linux-2.6.5-s390-04-april2004-patches.tar.gz
file you'll get, and you see (amongst others) that patch ...

>I guess I would like to repeat my request for a copy of the current versions
>of the S/390 files as known today.  I would have been able to figure out
>most of this myself if I had that for a reference.

I'm not sure what you mean by "current versions of the S/390 files as known
today".  If this means "April 2004 stream level exactly, but adapted to
2.6.7", then the answer is, we don't have that -- we'd have to construct
that level ourselves.  If it means "whatever is in our internal repository",
then the answer is, that corresponds nearly 100% to the current Bitkeeper
head, modulo those changes that weren't accepted upstream (which Arnd and
Martin enumerated), and those changes we're not allowed to make public
(OCO source, not-yet-released features).

Note that Bitkeeper head / our internal repository contain quite a few
changes in addition to what's on developerWorks; this is probably one
of the things that is confusing your comparisons.

If you simply want to know what we recommend you should build: what
Arnd and Martin said; take 2.6.7 and add the four developerWorks patches
they listed.  (This only misses the zfcp module_exit change, but the
only effect of not having it is that you cannot rmmod the zfcp module.
If this is important, I guess we can provide that patch ...)

It is certainly not our intention to make building your own kernel
difficult; in fact with the 'release-often' model we're trying to
follow with 2.6 Bitkeeper head, we thought it would be easier to
do so than it was with 2.4 ...

Bye,
Ulrich

--
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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