On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Aft nix wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Aft nix <aftnix at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm developing kernel modules right now, and the build times are >>>> starting to get under my skin. As a side effect i'm taking way too >>>> many "coffee" breaks during builds. >>> (snip) >>>> 3) Is there any way i can get the "Centos specific" patches in "plain >>>> patch" format? That means i dont wanna do things in src-rpm way. >>>> If the patches are available in normal patch format i can keep >>>> everything tidy in my kernel git tree. >>> >>> The CentOS way of "Build Your Own Kernel Modules" is described in this >>> CentOS wiki article: >>> >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules >>> >>> I suggest you try method 1 first to see if you can build your module. >>> Once confirmed, you may want to proceed to method 3 to build a >>> kABI-compatible module. >>> >>> You can ask further questions about kmods either here, or better yet, >>> on the ELRepo's mailing list. ELRepo ( http://elrepo.org ) builds a >>> number of kernel modules for RHEL/CentOS/SL. >> >> So bottom line is, i can't get the patches other than src-rpms? > > That's why I mentioned yum update <package>. Yum will get the dependencies > as well. >> >> I better learn this thing, i guess. > > You're on CentOS and not using yum to update the system? You very much > need to learn it. > I know how yum works. i'm a long time centos user. I'm talking about the "centos specific patches" for the kernel. if i roll these patches over vanilla kernel, it will become the kernel source where kernel rpms are built. Now centos distributes its kernel sources through src-rpms(srpms). Which is "already patched" kernel source. What i want is just the patches. so i that i can roll it over vanilla kernel and get identical source as those distributed through srpms. I hope i'm clear now. cheers. > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -aft