[luau] Help needed with kernel patching

[MonMotha]

Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
> hey folks,
> 
> 
> It's been a few years since i did this, so any help you can provide is
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> I need to patch a kernel from 2.4.9-31 to 2.4.12 and then apply another
> patch to enable PPTP masquerading -
> http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/netfilter_pptp_2_4_12.patch.gz

PPTP patch is now in the patch-o-matic.  You should be able to use any 
recent kernel (I reccomend 2.4.19-rc as .19 has lots of netfilter 
fixes), though 2.4.12 might be a bit old (and wasn't a very good kernel 
anyway IIRC).  You will probably also have to patch with newnat (which 
you want anyway, trust me).

Also, you don't patch kernel binaries; you patch the kernel source 
trees.  In this case, none of the vanilla patches would work anyway 
since 2.4.9-31 is an extremely modified redhat series.

> 
> It's my understanding that kernel patches must be made incrementally i.e.,
> apply 2.4.10 before applying 2.4.11, but on the kernel.org site
> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/), the 2.4.11 patch series is
> labeled as "patch-2.4.11-dontuse.gz"
> hmmmm....
> 

Yes they do have to be done incrementally.  2.4.11 is labeled dontuse 
because it had a severe filesystem corruption bug.  The dontuse is there 
to tell people to NOT run that kernel.  The patch is provided for 
patching up to a later kernel and historical purposes only.

> 
> Aloha,
> Ho'ala

--MonMotha