On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 14:24, Bob Beers<bob.beers at gmail.com> wrote: > > I think I'll need to back port Krzysztof Halasa's 'ppp for generic hdlc' > > patches to the 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 kernel sources. > > > > Has anyone worked on this? I have tried simply overwriting the > > drivers/net/wan directory with corresponding directory from > > more recent (2.6.25.20, 2.6.30) vanilla kernel source, but I get errors: > > Instead of copying a whole subdirectory from a later kernel (which > will likely not work), you can try to apply only the patch you need to > the current version of the kernel. Yes, I knew this was unlikely to work. > > > There are instructions on how to build a custom kernel based on the > CentOS kernel but with additional patches here: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel I am familiar with this page and also the very helpful <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules> :) > > I believe this is the patch you want to apply, right? > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/3/14/1165494 Yes, I've been through this thread a couple of times. There are several patches actually applied in the course of this thread. I'll go through it again and try to apply the same patches in the same order. And there are a couple other patches that show up later in the year fixing other things related to hdlc/wan. Do you know of a clever way to scan through the change logs for the relevant entries? > > If so, the comments on the original post on that thread suggests it > works on kernels up to 2.6.22, that might end up including 2.6.18 as > well, so you might have luck with that... Yes, thank you for your reply. I'll take a whack at it. -- -Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090630/4dd97efb/attachment-0005.html>