A Dimecres 28 Octubre 2009, Gilles Chanteperdrix va escriure: > Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a trouble installing xenomai in a debian machines. Actually > > the official debian package is not useful. You cannot use it because > > there's no kernel package that could be patched. > > The debian packages are not maintained by the Xenomai project. So, if > you are having problems with these, please contact Roland Stigge.
[...] yes, I know. Sorry for the noise. My fingers were faster than my brain. This comment have to go as bug to the package, not to the xenomai list. > > > Anyway, I would like to ask about if, for example, a patch against a > > 2.6.30 could be used against 2.6.30.4 for example or reverse. > > Usually, I-pipe patches are for the base release, but work with later > releases. When it happens that there is a conflict, and we find out > about it, we release another I-pipe patch e.g for 2.6.30.4. In that > case, you need to use the I-pipe patch for 2.6.30.4 for 2.6.30.4 and later. well, as I understand if you release a I-pipe patch for a kernel 2.x.y it "should work" for all the releases 2.x.y.z (z>0) in "theory", but if there's a problem, then you release a patch for 2.x.y.z and this patch then works for 2.x.y.z (where z is the version where the conflict occurred, no? But this patch also works with the previous versions (0 < z < ...) ? > > I don't understand why > > this four numbers instead of the classical 3. Or, how can I modify it to > > use it. > > These are releases from the stable branch: > http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/VariousKernelTrees Ok, thanks for the link. Well explained. Regards, Leo -- -- Linux User 152692 PGP: 0xF944807E Catalonia ------------------------------------- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
