Greetings;

Applying only patch-2.6.24.3 to 2.6.24, and building it exits fairly early, 
where 24.1 built and is running nicely.

From the build screen:
  CC      kernel/time/timekeeping.o
kernel/power/pm.c:203: warning: ‘pm_register’ is deprecated (declared at 
kernel/power/pm.c:62)
kernel/power/pm.c:203: warning: ‘pm_register’ is deprecated (declared at 
kernel/power/pm.c:62)
kernel/power/pm.c:204: warning: ‘pm_send_all’ is deprecated (declared at 
kernel/power/pm.c:178)
kernel/power/pm.c:204: warning: ‘pm_send_all’ is deprecated (declared at 
kernel/power/pm.c:178)
  CC      kernel/power/poweroff.o
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  LD      lib/zlib_deflate/built-in.o
fs/partitions/check.c: In function ‘add_partition’:
fs/partitions/check.c:393: warning: ignoring return value of ‘kobject_add’, 
declared with attribute warn_unused_result
fs/partitions/check.c:396: warning: ignoring return value 
of ‘sysfs_create_link’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
fs/partitions/check.c:403: warning: ignoring return value 
of ‘sysfs_create_file’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.o
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  CC      drivers/usb/core/message.o
drivers/pci/search.c: In function ‘pci_find_slot’:
drivers/pci/search.c:135: warning: ‘pci_find_device’ is deprecated (declared 
at include/linux/pci.h:492)
drivers/pci/search.c: At top level:
drivers/pci/search.c:478: warning: ‘pci_find_device’ is deprecated (declared 
at drivers/pci/search.c:283)
drivers/pci/search.c:478: warning: ‘pci_find_device’ is deprecated (declared 
at drivers/pci/search.c:283)
drivers/pci/search.c:479: warning: ‘pci_find_slot’ is deprecated (declared at 
drivers/pci/search.c:132)
drivers/pci/search.c:479: warning: ‘pci_find_slot’ is deprecated (declared at 
drivers/pci/search.c:132)
  CC      drivers/pci/rom.o
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  INSTALL include/mtd/inftl-user.h
make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.3/include/linux/if_addrlabel.h', needed by ...
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This was a merge error in 2.6.24.3.  The next stable release
will have it fixed/reverted.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/450
for the patch.

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~Randy
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