Applying kernel patches
Steve Blackwell
zephod at cfl.rr.com
Tue Sep 7 02:25:35 UTC 2004
On 06/09/04 20:03:34, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 07.09.2004 schrieb Steve Blackwell um 1:17:
>
> > I downloaded the kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521 rpm and then the
> > voluntary preemption patch voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 from
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/voluntary-preempt/older and placed
> this
> > in the kernel source directory. Then using the instructions from
> the
>
> > low latency wiki, http://wiki.philkern.de/5.html, I ran this
> command:
> >
> > patch -p1 --dry-run < ./voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9
> >
> > I get a bunch of errors. Here is the beginning of the output:
>
> That is "normal" because the Fedora kernel is no vanilla kernel from
> kernel.org which is the target for the patch. It is a 2.6.8-rc4-bk3
> kernel version with lots of other patches.
>
So the .521 in kernel-2.6.8-1.521 means it's been patched 521 times?
Is there some place that explains the naming conventions? I would guess
that the rc4 in 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 means Release Candidate #4 which then
turned into 2.6.8-1 but what about the bk3 bit? Also is there somewhere
that lists the differences between a vanilla 2.6.8-1 kernel and the one
release with Fedora Core 2?
I will try with a vanilla kernel and look around for a patch to match
the Fedora kernel.
Thanks,
Steve.
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