Re: [Centos] Kernel Question

Short answer: probably yes, but not in the way RH/CentOS intended.

Long answer: you are better off obtaining the source RPM for the running kernel at hand, add your patch to the already insanely long list of Red Hat patches applied to the kernel, change the release tag (to make it unique to you), and 'rpmbuild -ba' a whole new set of kernel binaries.

-te

Chris Bryant wrote:

OK- A dumb question. Will a "generic"(kernel.org) kernel work with Centos 4? My reason for asking- I'm needing to upgrade from RH9, and would rather go ahead and go with 4 for the 2.6 kernel, but I need a patched kernel (Win4Lin), and I'm not sure they will offer a prepatched version (though they probably will for EL4).

Thanks!