Paul on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:42:02 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] kernel patching


Did it.  I grabbed the 2.4.18 kernel.  It took an hour and a half to
download.  It compiled without a problem.

The patch from Red Hat's 2.4.7-10 kernel to 2.4.8 did fail.  That's
OK.  At least I learned how to do a patch.


"Michael F. Robbins" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 18:49, Paul wrote:
> > Oops.  I have Red Hat kernel 2.4.7-10, not 2.4.10. Maybe the 2.4.8
> > patch will work.  8-)
> 
> No, most likely the 2.4.8 patch will fail as well.  As was explained
> earlier, the Red Hat kernels have special patches added by RH to their
> source code.  So the RH kernel 2.4.7 is not the same as a stock 2.4.7.
> If you try to use stock patches with a custom kernel, it will probably
> fail.
> 
> Go grab a fresh stock kernel source and start again.

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