On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 12:05, condor_rl@libero.it wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed the debian kernel source package: > > kernel-source-2.6.8 This is not upstream source. That means the patches you speak of will probably fail (especially the mm patches). If you want to run from the mm tree, you should get your sources at kernel.org > > Now, I would like to patch to 2.6.8.1 but I do not know if I need to find a > debian package or I can download the patch-2.6.8.1.bz2 from kernel.org. Yes, just patch 2.6.8 with this patch. > > Suppose I apply the patch, how can I patch again the 2.6.8.1 to > 2.6.8.1-mm4? By applying the mm4 patch. > > To patch the 2.6.8.1 to 2.6.8.1-mm4 should I patch to > 2.6.8.1-mm1, 2.6.8.1-mm2, 2.6.8.1-mm3, and at the end the 2.6.8.1-mm4? > Or can I patch the 2.6.8.1 only with the 2.6.8.1-mm4? > The mm4 patch is against 2.6.8-1. You should not apply mm2, mm3, etc... If mm5 gets released then you reverse the mm4 and apply mm5. The mm patch is always against the base kernel version, it is not incremental. -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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