Re: linux ac20 patch got error:

[Mike Galbraith]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:

> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
>  >
>  >> A rather incomprehensible message, so let's flesh this out a bit.
>  >>
>  >> Basically the problem occurs when patching linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c It
>  >> can't find it, presumably due to an error in 2.4.1, where it appears to
>  >> me that reiserfs/ is located off of linux/ not linux/fs/. Simple to fix,
>  >> I guess, though this would appear to mean that Linus made a mistake w/
>  >> 2.4.1 (plz correct me if I'm wrong), though it could also be said that
>  >> this means that Alan diff'd the wrong tree (basically a fixed tree in re
>  >> reiserfs/)
>  >
>  >
>  > A third possibility: an elf/gremlin munged your tree for grins ;-)
>
> maybe I coffed. 8-)
>
>  >
>  > ac20 went in clean here.
>  >
>  > 	-Mike
>
> Granted that this is possible, yet how likely is it that two people
> would come up with the same problem, when they don't even know each
> other. 2nd, this was a fresh tree, i.e. 2.4.0 from tar.bz2, patch to
> 2.4.1, then patch to 2.4.1-ac20, therefore there likely must be
> something else. Maybe a similarly corrupted (shouldn't be possible w/
> bz2, let alone gz) 2.4.1 patch, or some such. Still, given that it was a
> d/l from zeus.kernel.org, it should be ok (short of somebody hacking the
> server. I rarely check the sigs)

Who shot John doesn't matter much.  Bottom line is that your tree was
corrupt.. and now it's likely clean as a whistle ;-)

	-Mike