On Sad, 2005-01-01 at 01:33, Bill Davidsen wrote:
linux lover wrote:
Hi all,
Where can i get special pathces used by RedHat to
original kernels from www.kernel.org?
Three step process
1 - get the RH source RPM and unpack
2 - get the kernel.org source of the same number
3 - use diff to generate the patch.
Optional step 4 - look at the size of it, shake your head and swear.
If you do it such a dumb way then sure. Most of the patches in the 2.6.8
and 2.6.9 ones are post 2.6.9 fixes already in the base tree because of
the lack of a stable base kernel tree in Linus new model.
In order that we don't go collectively insane maintaining it those are
broken out from the feature patches we needed. Generating a single giant
diff loses all the useful info.