Well, oh yes they are - but you are not supposed to apply these to the
kernel, with two notable exceptions.

These patches are historical snapshots.  They are not up to date, though
they might well work.  They were made by simply combining the kernel code
you will find in the linux subdirectory near here with certain constant
patches for the CONFIGURATION mechanisms of the linux kernel.

The two exceptions to when you may apply these patches:

   1) The latest 2.6 patch is up to date and represents the best and
      only code for 2.6 kernels;

   2) if you are running a debian-patch install on an old kernel, these
      ARE the patches that will be used (and good luck to you).

There is a third exception, of course:

   3) if you know what you are doing.

In all other circumstances, you are supposed to stand at the root of
this archive directory, and say "make LINUXDIR=whatever", or something
very much like that.  That will compile daemons, test code, kernel
modules etc.  without patching anything.  "make install" will then
install the results somewhere appropriate.

PTB
