10 May
2006
10 May
'06
2:37 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:17 -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote:
I'm confused about how to properly patch a kernel.
I tried to patch a
kernel recently with Mingo's patch, and it failed. In researching the
problem, I came up with this:
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/HowToApplyAPatch
It's easier than you think it is - the name of the mingo patch tells you
exactly which kernel to apply it against. In this case it's 2.6.16.
Lee
From what I can understand, this document is
telling me that I would
need to download kernel 2.6 (no incremental versions), and
apply the
most recent Mingo patch (as of today, 2.6.16-rt20) from there. Prior
to reading this, I always thought that you downloaded the most recent
full kernel (as of today, 2.6.16.15), the most recent patch (as of
today, 2.6.16-rt20), and go from there. Which way is the proper way?