kernel number doubt

Robert Locke rlocke at ralii.com
Mon Sep 20 03:34:15 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 23:07, Brian Mury wrote:
> > In the case of your kernel, the 2.6.8 refers to the baseline kernel from
> > kernel.org while the 1.521 is appended by the Fedora packager to refer
> > to the "patches/enhancements" applied.
> 
> Actually 2.6.8.1 is from kernel.org, .521 is from Fedora.
> 
> I'm in the process of building 2.6.8.1 right now (to incorporate Win4Lin
> patches). It works if I call it 2.6.8.1, but when I try to call it
> 2.6.8.1-Win4Lin, I get a kernel panic when it tries to boot. Strange...
> I guess I'll just leave it as 2.6.8.1 then!
> 
> It's my first time building a kernel, BTW.
> 
> 
Brian,

There is a reason it is 2 point 6 point 8 dash 1 point 521.  The "dash"
is the separator...

If you look at the changelog from this kernel you will see it is
actually based on 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 from kernel.org....

Another place to look would be in your Makefile under
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-1.521.  This presumes that you have installed
kernel-sourcecode and you will notice:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 8
EXTRAVERSION = -1.521custom

So, I'll stand by my original assessment...  2.6.8 from the developer
(kernel.org) and 1.521 from the packager (redhat.com).

Of course, your mileage will vary if you are downloading direct from
kernel.org.  Then there is no packager, just the developer.....

--Rob





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