From: scott thomason <scott-kernel@thomasons.org>
To: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patching the kernel
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:41:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303092241.03335.scott-kernel@thomasons.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303091711.21652.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:11 pm, joe briggs wrote:
> My apologies for this question that is so basic to all of you,
> but can any of you please point me toward a howto or
> instructions for exactly how to 'patch a kernel'? For
> example, at kernel.org, the latest stable kernel is 2.4.20,
> and is actually a patch. I currently use 2.4.19 under Debian
> and routinely rebuild & install it no problem. If I download
> a kernel 'patch', do I apply it to the entire directory, or
> the compiled kernel, etc.? Thanks so much.
I usually use these patch commands, as they make finding any
errors so much easier:
bunzip patchfile.bz2 ## or...
gunzip patchfile.gz
cd linux-2.4.x
## To see if the patch is actually going to work
patch -p1 --batch --quiet --dry-run < ../patchfile
## To actually apply the patch
patch -p1 --batch --quiet < ../patchfile
---scott
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-10 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-09 22:11 patching the kernel joe briggs
2003-03-09 21:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-03-09 21:25 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-10 4:41 ` scott thomason [this message]
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