[CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

Keith Keller wrote:
> I was looking at this bug which my machines are currently experiencing:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883905
> 
> The proposed patch is literally one new line in the XFS codebase.  So
> since the patch is so straightforward, I had a crazy idea that I would
> build my own kernel with this patch, and test it out to see if it
> worked.  (It's been many years since I built my own kernel, so that
> would be an adventure in and of itself.)

Looks like this problem will be fix in kernel-2.6.32-358.5.1.el6 - see 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921958>

James Pearson