[Click] Kernel Patches for Debian 2.4.26

Bob Keyes bob at sinister.com
Fri Jul 30 10:58:00 EDT 2004



On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Eddie Kohler wrote:

> Hey, can you send a complete list along?  Let's go case-by-case.
>
> > Hi, It seems that Debian's and Click's kernel patches conflict for
> > 2.4.26.  I took a look at a couple of these problems with John and they
> > seem pretty minor, such as:
> >
> > debian:include/linux/spinlock.h:177
> > #if (__GNUC__ > 2)
> >
> > kernel.org:include/linux/spinlock.h:177
> > #if (__GNUC__ > 2 || __GNUC_MINOR__ > 95)
>
> In this case, for example, I think it is now safe to remove Click's
> "__GNUC_MINOR__ > 95" clause, because I don't think anyone uses Red
> Hat's magical gcc-2.96 any more.

Is this specific to RH's mangled 2.96? Or just thing prior to 3? Because
Debian Stable still uses 2.95.4 (which creates smaller executables than
the GCC3.x)


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