On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 16:46, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > Oh, one question was asked about how the ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.16.18 > directory looks like. I think the linux-2.6.18.i386 (or i686) is not what > the patch is expecting? As some of the patches fail only 1/2 or 2/3 or 1/4, that means that there is a part of it that succeeded, so it's probably not a matter of directory layout. It seems that what you are trying to do is take a patch created on the latest kernel from kernel.org, and applying it verbatim to the latest CentOS kernel, which is far far far away from the latest kernel.org. The problem is that the kernel from kernel.org was probably changed a lot between the version used on CentOS and the latest version, in some areas the code may have changed so much that it's highly improbable that any non-trivial patch will succeed there. That's why this is called "back-porting", because there is actually quite a lot of effort into it. Filipe