Question about POM

[Simon Turvey]

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez wrote:

>>Are the POM patches only supposed to apply to a particular 2.4.x or 
>>2.6.x?  The reason I ask is that the ipsec* patches don't seem to apply 
>>cleanly to my 2.6.10 tree.
> 
> 
> They are supposed to be for both 2.4 and 2.6, but in my own
> experience it works better on newer kernels. Now that Netfilter
> doesn't gives you an official pom you can check their snapshots
> from the CVS. The last one should be prepared for 2.6.10.

Curious.  It was patch-o-matic-ng-20050212.tar.bz2 that I grabbed from 
the site.  There seems to have been a minor reorganisation of some of 
the files in at least net/ipv4 that prevent the patches applying 
cleanly.  The complete absence of any changelogs in POM doesn't help much :(

Simon