On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 08:25:17PM +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:

Sometime Today, komal assembled some asciibets to say:

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I have PCQLinux 2004 kernel 2.6.2-1.160. This month LFY has patch file patch 2.6.7. It is possible to patch PCQLinux 2004 with the given

Nope. The 2.6.7 patch has to be applied to a vanilla 2.6.6 kernel. You'll have to download that from kernel.org. Most distros apply their own patches before distributing and these break upgrades to the main kernel tree.

Its advisable to stick to your own distribution for patches. Don't just pick up some arbitrary patch, just attracted by some version number. In fact never upgrade kernels simply because a new one came out ... do so only if the version addresses some issue that affects you, and even in that case check your own distribution for upgrades first.

Unless of course, you are pretty experienced and you know exactly what you are doing. But then, you would be running your own custom compiled kernel anyway! :)

Sameer.

Sometime Today, komal assembled some asciibets to say:

Thank you for reply. So, If I have kernel 2.6.1 then I can patch it with patch file patch 2.6.7?

nope, you gotta get patch 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 and 2.6.6 also and apply them in order. Note, you have to get kernel 2.6.1 also from kernel.org.