Hi,

I am using the stock debian kernel(2.6.17-5) and recently I found out that there is a -mm patch(2.6.18-rc4-mm1) at kernel.org which has certain Hardware support that I require. Now the problem is that if I apply this patch to my 2.6.17-5 sources, it produces error. According to a kernel.org, I need to apply this patch to 2.6.17 sources and not 2.6.17-5 i.e. the source code of the previous full release with a 3-part version number.

I tried applying this patch to the VAnilla sources 2.6.17 and it worked fine, but it did not work for vanilla 2.6.17-8 also.

So now how do I patch my stock debian kernel sources with this patch? Is there any place from where I can get 2.6.17 sources? I tried http://snapshot.debian.net/ but it only has sources upto 2.6.17-1 and not 2.6.17.

Thanks

I am pretty sure 2.6.17-1 = 2.6.17

Nah, I tried that and it gave me errors..

Why not use the 2.6.18 kernel then? I tried it and it worked well (except I could not get nvidia drivers working - which would be a problem if you use nvidia drivers )

I usually compile my kernels anyways for bootsplash support - and to get rid of a lot of stuff that I do not use on machine.

If you make the kernel the debian way, you will still end up with the debs for installation.

or I can actually answer your question

Here it is

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/ma...17.orig.tar.gz

You might look at this package as well linux-patch-debian-2.6.17