Kernel Pre patch
 

Could somebody tell me what a pre patch is? I am very comfortable applying patches and recompiling, but i just don't quite get what this pre-patching is all about.

I need to apply one I'm told to get the prism54 drivers going (pre-2.4.23), but I have a hand rolled 2.4.20. Can this really be right?

The prepatch is like an alpha release of the new kernel
release candidates are like betas.

You can get the pre-patches at kernel.org