What is the easiest way to upgrade a kernel manually ? Patching doesn't work.
Lets say I wanted to upgrade from 3.4.32 to 3.4.33.
I currently know of only two ways that work: 1) Use git, but the downside is that it takes up several gigabytes of space on my system and a long download time. 2) Download the full kernel from kernel.org. This is my current preferred way, but somehow I feel that it is extremely wasteful to download the exact same kernel plus a few line changes. The ways that don't work: 1) Download and apply a patch. I have never seen a tutorial on how to patch a kernel that actually works without error. The error I usually get is: Code:
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Any other ways that I am missing ? I am using Slackware, so please don't tell me to upgrade the kernel using my package manager. It is really disappointing that there is so little documentation on how to patch a kernel properly. |
Ok, I figured it out. It seems that all patches are relative to the base version. In this case I have to apply the 3.4.33 patch to kernel 3.4
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