[Techtalk] help:applying 2.4.9 patch
Nils Philippsen
nils at wombat.dialup.fht-esslingen.de
Mon Nov 11 16:01:42 EST 2002
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 14:03, freeman wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello !
> > I need help!.I've got a 2.4.8 kernel,and, I want to upgrade it.as
> far
> > as I know the next kernel version is 2.4.9,heu ? so I downloaded
> > "patch-2.4.9" from kernel.org and I tried to apply it,but it didn't
> > work ! here is some of what "patch" said :
> >
> > patching file CREDITS
> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n]
> > Apply anyway? [n]
[ skipping error messages ]
Have you tried to patch a "vendor/distributor supplied" kernel source
tree with a patch file from kernel.org? It surely looks like that :-).
Even though the kernel sources from Linux distributors contain
directories like "linux-2.4.8", this only means that the distributor
probably started with 2.4.8 and added patches to that.
To get a "real" 2.4.8, you'll likely have to unpack the source RPM (if
you use a distro that uses RPM as the package manager) or similar and
extract the linux-2.4.8.tar.bz2 from there. Unpack that into a different
place and apply patches there.
But I really advise you to grab a current 2.4.19 tree as it has numerous
bugs fixed (and a much better VM). Maybe the patches from 2.4.8 via
2.4.9 via 2.4.10 ... to 2.4.19 would be less to download, but I very
much doubt it.
Nils
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