Patch 2.6.9 Effect on Top Level Makefile

From: Bryan Batten (me_at_here.invalid)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:08:59 -0700

I went through the process of patching my kernel source up from 2.6.4
to 2.6.9 (heh). All went fine up through 2.6.8.1 (which I applied
after 2.6.8).

Applying the 2.6.9 patch did not give any error indications, but when
I looked at the first few lines of the top level Makefile, I saw:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 8
EXTRAVERSION = .1

... even though the patch file has:

diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile 2004-10-18 14:56:33 -07:00
+++ b/Makefile 2004-10-18 14:56:34 -07:00
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
  VERSION = 2
  PATCHLEVEL = 6
-SUBLEVEL = 8
+SUBLEVEL = 9
  EXTRAVERSION =

Maybe the last line should have been:(?)

-EXTRAVERSION = .1
+EXTRAVERSION =

TIA for any pointers,

Bryan

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