Re: How can I use kernel patches (kernel-tree 2.6.6)

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Roland Wegmann writes:

> Somewhere I read something about the option '--added-patches'. But
> should patches not be applied before the command 'make menuconfig'?
> I ask because I always use 'make-kpkg' after 'make menuconfig'.

The Debian way of doing it is running `make-kpkg --config menuconfig'.

> What does 'apply that (kernel-patches) on the top of the Debian kernel
> source' mean?

> Do I have to 'bunzip2' the file 'patch-2.6.6-1.bz2' from '/usr/src/
> kernel-patches/all/2.6.6/debian/' into '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6' 
> and then 'patch -p1 patch-2.6.6-1'

The tree from kernel-source-2.6.6 already contains the Debian patches.
You can unpack the tarball and call make-kpkg immediately.

Regards, Jens.

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