Re: Comment savoir si un kernel-patch est compatible ou non avec tell e ou telle version de noyau?

[Frédéric Bothamy <fbothamy@mail.dotcom.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:40:28AM +0200, CAPRON Romain wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> Demandez de l'aide hier concernant l'utilisation des kernel-patch-xxx.deb et
> je remercie tous ceux qui m'ont répondu, en particulier Xavier Poinsard :)
> Cependant, comment être sûr qu'un patch fourni par l'intermédiaire d'un
> package kernel-patchxxx soit compatible avec telle ou telle version de noyau
> ?

Le script d'application du patch doit faire cela. Par exemple pour le
patch lpp, il y a ceci :

# Environment variables that will impact this script:
# KPATCH_lpp
#    if set to a kernel version for which you have a lpp patch,
#    it will be used instead of the version for your kernel.

KVERSIONS=(2.4.17 2.4.18)

[...]

# If a specified version was asked and it was not found, stop here
if [ -n "$KPATCH_lpp" -a ${KVERSIONS[$IDX]} != "$KPATCH_lpp" ]
then
    echo >&2 "Requested kernel version \`$KPATCH_lpp' not found for
    patch lpp"
    exit 1
fi

Par ailleurs dans la doc du paquet, il y a (fichier
README-kernelpatch.Debian) :

- for each patch you can set the KPATCH_<patchid> environment variable
to a specific kernel version, if you want to apply a patch that is not
declared to work on the current kernel.  This can be useful if you
want to test a patch on a brand new kernel release that was not
published at the time of patch packaging.  If the requested version is
not found, this patch application will fail.

Fred