Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:10:01PM -0500, Boxuan Gu wrote:
> Hello, Ben,
>
> Thank you for your email very much! However, when I used apt-get
> source linux-2.6, it seemed that the patch 12 has been applied
> automatically. Do I need to apply patch 12 again?
Since there are many different and mostly independent patches, they
are not included directly in the Debian patch (.diff.gz) which apt-get
applies automatically. Instead they are created as separate files
under debian/patches, which are applied as part of the build process
controlled by debian/rules. By using the kernel build system directly
you have avoided applying those patches.
> What I am confused is that, the kernel image gotten from "updating"
> can support tg3 but the kernel image built from its source codes
> (Linux Kernel 2.6.26) can't. I don't know why.
[...]
The package is built using dpkg-buildpackage, which calls debian/rules,
which applies those patches. But this takes a very long time because it
builds several configurations and each of those enables most of the
drivers and optional features. If you want just a single configuration,
use linux-source-2.6.26.
Ben.
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