Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

Where did the patch come from?

Posted Aug 22, 2003 5:07 UTC (Fri) by wyszynski (guest, #4988)
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

The source of the original patch to Linux goes back even further, can be found in the IA-64 patch for 2.4.16: linux-2.4.16-ia64-011126.diff.gz. This appears to be about 10 monthes (26 November 2001) before in got into 2.4.19.

Didn't this patch come from the Trillian/IA-64 Project? Caldera was a active member of that project. Weren't they checking the stuff which was release by the project.

(Log in to post comments)

Big patch - how does the rest compare?

Posted Aug 22, 2003 5:40 UTC (Fri) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

diff -urN linux-2.4.16/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c lia64-2.4/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c

--- linux-2.4.16/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c	Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969

+++ lia64-2.4/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c	Mon Nov 19 23:22:50 2001

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@

That's a rather large, complete patch -- against nothing previous (if I read the diff correctly) -- how similar is the REST to ancient UNIXes and SRVx?