Hua Wen wrote: > > Thank you very much, Jun. > > One more thing -- we've made quite some changes in > 2.2.1 so I wonder what would be the best way to > upgrade. I'm thinking: > > 1> check out new kernel, use "merge directories" > function from emacs, or > > 2> use "cvs import" to import the new kernel to > our local cvs repository, then merge with our > local changes by "cvs update/co -j".. > > Any comments/suggestions? > Hmm, there is so much difference between 2.2.x and 2.4.x. I would think any merging effort would be a nightmare. Let alone later debugging effort. The best thing is probably to extract what you *have* changed, and apply those changes back to the current tree. Jun > Thanks! > -Hua > > > > > > > We made changes to linux/MIPS kernel 2.2.1 for our > > > system and it's been running well so far. We now > > > plan to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.X. The question > > > is: > > > > > > Which sub release of 2.4 is more stable and is > > > recommended to use? > > > > > > > I suggest you use the latest CVS head. So far it is usually the head that has > > the most bug fixes, and really not much dramatic stuff introduced. > > > > Jun
