Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 14 April 2003 11:09:02 -0600, James Bourne wrote:
> 
> If you only change the one line and add the new variable I'm afraid it won't
> work due to other things changing as well...  At least the files 
> Makefile
> Rules.make
> arch/ppc/boot/Makefile
> arch/arm/boot/Makefile
> scripts/patch-kernel
> scripts/mkspec
> scripts/Menuconfig
> 
> will need to be looked at as these are ones which contain references to
> SUBVERSION...  References to EXTRAVERSION also reside in these files.  It
> would just be better to do the "right thing" IMHO.
> 
> I will take a look at this and produce a patch for the same.

Ok. But the patch I lost really didn't do anything else and works for
me (TM).

joern@Limerick:~$ uname -a
Linux Limerick 2.4.20.1-je1 #3 Sun Apr 6 22:20:45 CEST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
joern@Limerick:~$ 

Jörn

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