Applying kernel patches

[Steve Blackwell]

On 06/09/04 20:03:34, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 07.09.2004 schrieb Steve Blackwell um 1:17:
> 
> > I downloaded the kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521 rpm and then the
> > voluntary preemption patch voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 from
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/voluntary-preempt/older and placed
> this
> > in the kernel source directory. Then using the instructions from  
> the
> 
> > low latency wiki, http://wiki.philkern.de/5.html, I ran this
> command:
> >
> > patch -p1 --dry-run < ./voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9
> >
> > I get a bunch of errors. Here is the beginning of the output:
> 
> That is "normal" because the Fedora kernel is no vanilla kernel from
> kernel.org which is the target for the patch. It is a 2.6.8-rc4-bk3
> kernel version with lots of other patches.
>

So the .521 in kernel-2.6.8-1.521 means it's been patched 521 times?

Is there some place that explains the naming conventions? I would guess  
that the rc4 in 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 means Release Candidate #4 which then  
turned into 2.6.8-1 but what about the bk3 bit? Also is there somewhere  
that lists the differences between a vanilla 2.6.8-1 kernel and the one  
release with Fedora Core 2?

I will try with a vanilla kernel and look around for a patch to match  
the Fedora kernel.

Thanks,
Steve.