I wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've begun.  So far, I've worked backward from
> patchlevel 195 to 177.  I've had to patch files forward from 2.10.1 a
> couple of times, and that's gone without a hitch.

Ran into trouble with patch 141.  The /usr/src/bin/ld.c file from 2.10.1
is too old; patches from between that and the initial 2.11 are missing,
and the file gets deleted and replaced at a later level of 2.11 patches,
breaking the history.  Patch 141 uncovers the problem.

I can make the patches work, of course - but it means that for much of
the resulting 2.11 history, /usr/src/bin/ld.c will be wrong.

-tih
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