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On Saturday 11 September 2010 22:57:12 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:15:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:24 on Saturday 11 September 2010, |
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> > Peter Humphrey did opine thus: |
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> > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote: |
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> > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon |
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> > > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot |
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> > > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far. |
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> > That's the beauty of Linux. When Linus decides he's had enough |
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> > keeping old stuff hanging around and rips it out, you just put it |
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> > right back in your own copies. |
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> Hmm. Not sure how I'd do that. I'd just assumed that I'd stick with a |
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> kernel version that worked. You know: mask anything later than version |
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> 99.94. And yes, I do remember that version, but in the 1.n.n series. |
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Is it possible to create one's own patch for drivers from old kernel(s) and |
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use that to patch later versions?! O_O |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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