Re: Patching RH6.2 kernel

["Michael H. Warfield" <mhw wittsend com>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:34:39AM -0500, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>     Yes, but the kernal that comes with 6.2 is 2.2.14-5, not the 2.2.15-14 that
> the IDE patch is for.

	Errr?  Oh my, that is just too funny!

	Let me take a guess...

	2.2.14-5 is RedHat build/patch/crudball number 5 of 2.2.14.

	2.2.15 has not been released yet and we are up to pre16 for that,
so I'm guessing that 2.2.15-14 is really referring to 2.2.15-pre14.  In
other words, take 2.2.14 and patch it with the pre-patch-2.2.15-14 you
would get from ftp.*.kernel.org and you got it.

	2.2.14-5 and 2.2.15-14 are referring to two totally different
critters after the '-'.  One is a RedHat extension, the other is a
prepatch extension.  They look the same but they are not the same animals.
RedHat should have used some other notation for that extension...  Maybe
RH5 or something.  That really does create confusion.  What's even worse
is that the RedHat -{n} is an iteration after a release and the prepatch
-{m} are the prerelease iterations leading up to the final version.  So
the former is post release and the later is prerelease of the base number.

	Here is where you can get the patch you need to apply to your
2.2.14 sources to get to 2.2.15pre14:

ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.15pre/pre-patch-2.2.15-14.gz

	But the latest really is:

ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.15pre/pre-patch-2.2.15-16.gz

	Note: you apply a 2.2.15pre patch to 2.2.14 to create a 2.2.15pre
source.  Change directory to your linux sources (where you would run make
from) and type the following:

	zcat {directory_of_patch}/pre-patch-2.2.15-14.gz | patch -p1

	Then do the routine "make *config", "make dep clean bzImage modules",
"make modules_install", and "make install" as normal.

> Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> > Are you sure you installed the kernel source RPMS? If so, the source should be
> > in /usr/src/linux
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> > > I'm trying to patch my kernel to support the Promise Ultra66
> > > controller, and I've downloaded the patch.  It is for kernel; 2.2.15-14,
> > > and I can't find the kernel source.
> > >
> > >     Any suggestions?
> > >
> > >
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