It seems that you tried to patch the CentOS kernel and it didn't work.
I am doing this experiment. And, I don't know what would happen. Different from previous work, I don't patch the kernel from www.kernel.org but patch the one download from www.centos.org.
I would use the same version (kernel-2.6.18) to do patching in CentOS5.
From the view of Scott and Johnny, I think this is proper way to accomplish
my work.
Thanks.
Ian