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Re: [PLUG] kernel patching
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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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