Johnny Hughes wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: >> It seems that you tried to patch the CentOS kernel and it didn't work. >> A patch for a newer kernel probably wouldn't apply clean, and the >> CentOS kernels coming from RHEL are heavily patched already. The last >> time I played in the kernel there were at least a hundred patches. >> Probably more. Any one of those could contribute to your new patch >> failing. >> I usually wouldn't recommend using a non-standard kernel on CentOS. If >> the kernel in the main repo or the plus repo doesn't suit your system, >> and you add a kernel from the main kernel.org sources, you risk >> de-stabilizing your system. An Enterprise linux like CentOS is >> designed for stability and long life and the pieces are fairly >> intertwined. If you need a custom patch or a newer kernel, I would >> just use a distribution like Gentoo or Slackware that seems to use >> newer parts, or see if someone already adds your patch to their >> current kernel. > > For the record ... the number of patches in the latest RHEL-5 kernel == > 1529 sorry ... centos-4 == 1529 patches centos-5 == 1819 patches -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080730/7e36b38c/attachment-0003.sig>