December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
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Applying the patch
As the patches we have downloaded are compressed, the first thing to do is uncompress them with the bzip2 command:
$bzip2 -dv patch-2.6.17.9-10.bz2patch-2.6.17.9-10.bz2: done $bzip2 -dv patch-2.6.17.10-11.bz2patch-2.6.17.10-11.bz2: done $ls -Fgood_config linux-2.6.17.9/ patch-2.6.17.10-11 patch-2.6.17.9-10
Now we need to apply the patch files to the kernel directory. Go into the directory:
$ cd linux-2.6.17.9and run the patch program to apply the first patch moving the source tree from the 2.6.17.9 to the 2.6.17.10 release:
$ patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.17.9-10
patching file Makefile
patching file block/elevator.c
patching file fs/udf/super.c
patching file fs/udf/truncate.c
patching file include/net/sctp/sctp.h
patching file include/net/sctp/sm.h
patching file net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
patching file net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
patching file net/sctp/socket.cVerify that the patch really did work properly and that there are no errors or warnings in the output of the patch program. It is also a good idea to look at the Makefile of the kernel to see the kernel version:
$ $ head -n 5 Makefile
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 17
EXTRAVERSION = .10
NAME=Crazed Snow-WeaselNow that the kernel is at the 2.6.17.10 release level, do the same thing as before and apply the patch to bring it up to the 2.6.17.11 level:
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