hi, i've been trying patch kernel and kept failing. current kernel i'm using is 2.4.19
and i wanna patch 2.4.24

please correct me if i'm wrong here, does the patch needs to be kernel version - 1 (meaning if i want 2.4.24, i must patch from 2.4.23, not 2.4.19)???

it seems like to me that patching is only for clean kernel source tree. that's why those docs on google suggest i have to do patch -R first right? (they suggest remove the patch first before apply for new one)

if that's the case, does it mean i cannot patch from 19 to 24, i need to download the whole kernel, and compile from there?

i'm very confuse, would anyone please direct me to the correct place (or walk me through) how to patch a kernel?

here's the msg i've been getting:

[root@localhost linux]# patch -p0 < patch-2.4.24
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -urN linux-2.4.23/Makefile linux-2.4.24/Makefile
|--- linux-2.4.23/Makefile 2003-11-28 10:26:21.000000000 -0800
|+++ linux-2.4.24/Makefile 2004-01-05 05:53:56.000000000 -0800
--------------------------
File to patch:


i stuck there, because i don't know where to go from there.

thank you

You need all the diffs. But that's still about half the download size of getting the whole kernel tree.

Go here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

All the patches you need are there: patch-2.4.20, patch-2.4.21,...

thanks snacky

while apply 2.4.20 patch, i ran into a little problem...

it seems like those patches from kernel.org carry quite alot of stuff (including a lot of files that i don't have in my mdk kernel),

for example, stuff in /arch/ , patch from kernel.org has few more folders such as mimps, and amd, pp64, and sgi etc (my orginal kernel don't have any of that).

i was force to skip those "hunk", because my mdk kernel doesn't have it, so hum... am i "not" gonna able to update my patch because the kernel i'm using is customized for mdk?

p.s: few week ago, i compiled 2.4.24 (downloaded from kernel.org), compiled went fine, but after compile, i lost my supermount ability, as well as my sound system. now i'm being convice that mdk kernel is really for mdk only