Re: selecting the right patch and kernel source pairs

On Friday 25 March 2005 05:06, Gabor Istvan wrote:
> Dear list members:
>
> Currently I am using Suse 9.2 with its default kernel 2.6.8-24.11-default
> on a PC box.  I would like to try packet-writing.  I looked at http://web.
> telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.6/ for the available patches.  My
> questions are:
> 1.  Can I use the default suse kernel sources to patch or I do I have to
> use vanilla kernel?
> 2.  If I can use the suse default kernel which patch should I apply for the
> kernel mentioned above?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> IG

You can use the SuSE 9.2 kernel, currently "2.6.8-24.13" and apply the packet 
driver patch "packet-2.6.8-2.patch.bz2".  Run:

patch -Np1 -i packet-2.6.8-2.patch

In the kernel source tree directory.  You will notice some offsets in the 
patch process but this did not affect compiling.  Worked for me without any 
problem.

carl