On 04/08/2011 11:35 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Clark<sclark at netwolves.com> wrote: >> On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> I have just installed the kernel and will now start testing. >> >> Great. Please keep us posted. If the patches work as expected, they >> will be a worthy addition to the cplus kernel. >> I got a kernel built with the patches using the wiki and your notes in >> 0004586 (thanks). I am pleased to report >> that they appear to work as advertised. With: >> net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding = 2 >> net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra = 2 >> >> Router solicitations were issued and router advertisements were accepted and >> I could still forward packets. > Glad to hear things worked. Now that a new c6 kernel update is out, I > will try and see if I could include the patches to this version ( > 2.6.32-71.24.1 ). > >> I didn't make new patches, I simply did >> %define with_fuzzy_patches 1 > Never used it. Is it "safe" to do that? > As a general rule probably not. I did examine the result of the patched files and verified they looked OK. I guess I could cp'ed the files that were affected, then applied the patch by hand then ran gendiff against the new and the old to get a new patch, but in the end it is the same thing, other than having to turn on with_fuzzy_patches. >> Also what should the normal rpmbuild line be? >> I ended up doing >> rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec --with firmware --without debug >> --without debuginfo >> >> The first time I didn't have --with firmware and the kernel wouldn't >> install. > Yes, C6 kernels require kernel-firmware. I build it with --target noarch. > > Good to know. -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110408/c9a1302f/attachment-0005.html>