Patching Kernel

N|k0N · 06-06-2005, 01:27 AM

I been trying to patch my kernel from 2.6.11.1 to 2.6.11.2 all the way up to the latest kernel patch 2.6.11.11 . The problem i am having is that when i use bzip2 -dc .../directory here patch name here | patch -p1 i get the makefile.rej error and it wont patch it. i been using http://kerneltrap.org/node/823 for help but im having no luck. I've used make oldconfig and make mproper and even got to where i chose which modules i wanted to start up with 2.6.11.1 and did make modules then make modules_install. I dont know what to do. Any ideas?

gbonvehi · 06-06-2005, 01:51 AM

So, could you patch your source successfully?
Did you follow all the secuence (you've to apply every patch from 2.6.11.1 to 2.6.11.11)?

keefaz · 06-06-2005, 02:05 AM

There is one thing I don't understand from the link you posted,
their upgrade procedure is :

Code:

 # cd /usr/src
 # cp -rl linux-2.6.0-test4 linux-2.6.0-test5
 # mv ~/patch-2.6.0-test5.bz2 .
 # cd linux-2.6.0-test5
 # bzip2 -dc ../patch-2.6.0-test5.bz2 | patch -p1

I don't get why copy the old kernel source to the new kernel name
Usually when I patch a kernel, I don't do that, I apply the patch
directly (of course I make a backup, but I put it away and I don't
rename the kernel source to the new one)
I would suggest this :

Code:

 # cd /usr/src
 # tar czvf linux-2.6.0-test4-backup.tar.gz linux-2.6.0-test4
 # mv ~/patch-2.6.0-test5.bz2 .
 # cd linux-2.6.0-test4
 # bzip2 -dc ../patch-2.6.0-test5.bz2 | patch -p1