Re: FIXED_486_STRING ?

Denis Zaitsev (zzz@cd-club.ru)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:46:24 +0600


On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 03:36:59AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:25:56AM +0600, Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 03:03:55AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Petko Manolov <lz5mj@yahoo.com> did some work on them circa 2.4.0test.
> > > His patch is at http://www.dce.bg/~petkan/linux/string-486.diff
> > These patches are included...
>
> Look again.
>
> (davej@noodles:linux-2.4.19-pre6)$ cat ../string-486.diff | patch -p1 -F1 --dry-run
> patching file include/asm-i386/string-486.h
> Hunk #13 FAILED at 365.
> Hunk #14 succeeded at 388 (offset -5 lines).
> Hunk #15 succeeded at 409 (offset -5 lines).
> Hunk #16 succeeded at 452 (offset -5 lines).
> Hunk #17 succeeded at 516 (offset -5 lines).
> 1 out of 17 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/asm-i386/string-486.h.rej
>
> Almost still applies except for one hunk.

Yes, indeed. I've missed the fact that it is the latest patch. Thanks.

>
> > But the string-486.h itself is turned
> > off by FIXED_486_STRING. BTW, what are the problems?
>
> Not sure off-hand. I would hazard a guess that they copied
> too little/too much, but Petko would be a better person
> to ask.
>

I've already sent him a letter...
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