Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > 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, Quite wrong there. The hipl main code comes with separate patches for each kernel. I AM using the one in the 2.6.18.0 directory. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >