Re: APM poweroff under Linux 2.4.7 / 2.4.2 RH 7.1

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:41:22 +0100 (BST)


Hi Alan.

>> I put the 7.1 source CD in my drive and installed the relevant
>> source RPM therefrom. There are 227 patches listed therein,
>> which is way too many IMHO, and some of them clearly need to be
>> considered for the generic kernel.

> Most of them have been in -ac since the early days (the RH 2.4.2
> is closer to 2.4.3-ac than 2.4.2 in truth) and pushed on to
> Linus long ago

I guessed as much! However, it appears from the question being asked
that some of them never made it into the latest 2.4 kernel, and
specifically one of the two that I enclosed with that email, if the
complainant's comments and Stephen's replies are both accurate.

Best wishes from Riley.

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