Re: [PLUG] patching the kernel (again)

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Fred K. Ollinger:
> I'm guessing that I could apply this patch:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.19-rc1.gz
>
> Where to apply it? I'm going to try to patch the stock 2.4.18 kernel
> sources. Is this correct? Can I go up a version number in this fashion?

Yes you can.  There are several possible gotcha's but go into your 
likely to be /usr/src/linux directory and first backup your dot config 
(.config to be exact) to something like .config.bak.  Then do a make 
clean;make mrproper (I'm paranoid).  Then cp or mv your 
patch-2.4.19-4c1.gz file to /usr/src.  Then cd /usr/src/ and enter

zcat patch-2.4.19.rc1.gz |patch -p0 <Enter>

I am assuming that you haven't previously patched linux-2.4.18, and that 
it's directory is named linux.  Otherwise before running the patch won't 
work without a softlink to whatever directory is used as linux is 
necessary.


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