Taking advantage of patch_the_kernel -- advice?
After running 2.2.20 quite happily, I figured I'd try the 2.4 series.
So I just grabbed the 2.4.17-1 source package, and I'm just about to build
it when I think, hey, the "preemptible kernel" patch listed here:
http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
looks like it could be useful.
Instead of just applying the patch myself, I'd like to try that nifty-looking
patch_the_kernel feature in make-kpkg. How do I go about turning a simple
diff into the correct structure that patch_the_kernel expects?
I have found minimal documentation (although sufficient) on how to use
patch_the_kenl for existing kernel-patch-*.deb packages. But I've found
nothing on how to do it myself.
Phil
P.S.- Under what exact conditions I need to get the kernel-headers-XYZ
package continues to elude me, but nothing's broken yet.
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