[luau] kernel advice

[Charles Lockhart]

Can you (or anybody) recommend a place to find more information about 
these kernel source rpms?  I keep searching around, but not finding the 
stuff I need.

It's honestly confusing.  I've successfully patched the vanilla kernel 
plenty of times using other patches, and I think I pretty much 
understood them.  This stuff though, not sure if it makes sense:

kernel installed on a RH9 machine is 2.4.20-6, srpm is for 2.4.20-8
There is the *.spec file, which looks like it could build a kernel tree, 
but some things don't seem like they'd work.  Some of the patches are 
expecting to patch a tree called linux-2.4.20, some a tree called linux, 
some a tree called linux-1, and in some patch files they're mixed (i.e., 
there are sections meant to patch a tree called linux-1, and then there 
are sections meant to patch a tree called linux, all in the same patch 
file).

Undoubtedly it's my own ignorance causing me problems, so I was 
wondering where I could look to understand the system they use.  Is 
their a how-to or something like it available?  I've read some 
documentation about making rpms, but it didn't fill in enough of the 
blanks to get a good picture.

Sorry for the stupidity,

-Charles

Jimen Ching wrote:
> Most distributions have patches over the vanilla kernel.  They usually
> distribute the patch with their kernel.  Perhaps you can look through the
> patch set and spot something that might expose the problem in the vanilla
> kernel.
> 
> --jc