Re: Knowing you Patched the Kernel
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:53:56AM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2003 22:46:33 -0500
> Doug MacFarlane <madmac@covad.net> wrote:
>
> > I have PATCH_THE_KERNEL = AUTO and use the --apply_patched option to the
> > make-kpkg command.
> >
> > I also redirect all the output (via a > compile.output redirection) to a
> > text file so I can read the messages and/or error messages.
>
> To apply patches the make-kpkg option is "--added-patches=<patchname>".
>
> You should be able to examine your compile.output file with a pager (less,
> most) and just scroll down to the part where patches are applied. It's not
> that far down.
>
> If you don't see the section where patches are applied before dependencies
> are computed, they weren't applied.
[ caveat: I haven't compiled a freeswan kernel for some time now ]
Since we're using make-kpkg here, don't you also have to do "make-kpkg
oldconfig" to pick up the new config options that weren't available
before?
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