Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 14 April 2003 07:56:45 -0600, James Bourne wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 April 2003 07:34:54 -0600, James Bourne wrote:
> > > 
> > > This patch has also been added to the update patch available at
> > > http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/current-updates/linux-2.4.20-updates.patch
> > > 
> > > This patch includes the ptrace patch, tg3 patch, and ext3 patches.  It also
> > > changes the EXTRAVERSION to -uv2.
> > 
> > Privately, I have introduced a variable FIXLEVEL for this. The
> > resulting kernel version is 2.4.20.2 instead of 2.4.20-uv2, which imo
> > is more suiting for a fixed stable kernel.
> > 
> > Are you interested in this patch?
> 
> Sure, if you have the patch already please send it along.  I think this was
> suggested once before as well.

Must have lost it, but it was simple to recreate. :)

The fixlevel must also include the leading dot, so it will fold into
nothing for normal (non-fixed) kernels.

Marcelo, would/should this be included in Mainline as well?

Jörn

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--- linux-2.4.20/Makefile~FIXLEVEL	2002-11-29 00:53:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.20/Makefile	2003-04-14 16:14:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 VERSION = 2
 PATCHLEVEL = 4
 SUBLEVEL = 20
+FIXLEVEL =
 EXTRAVERSION =
 
-KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
+KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(FIXLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
 
 ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/)
 KERNELPATH=kernel-$(shell echo $(KERNELRELEASE) | sed -e "s/-//g")