Applying-patches-to-kernel problem

From: Andreas Sch. (no_reply_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:21:17 +0200

Hi NG

I'd like to track down a kernel version which
causes a malfunction of a network card etc.
I have located it to be anywhere between
2.6.5 (works) and 2.6.6 (fails).

So I'd like to start with the very first 2.6.5
kernel and step-by-step apply the patches like
"patch-2.6.6-bk1-bk2" and try if it fails.
So I have to start with the 2.6.5 released
kernel sources and apply them.

Here my problem arises: How to I apply those
patches? I changed into the source directory
(/usr/src/linux-2.6.5 in this case) and called
patch -p1 ../patches/patch-2.6.6-bk1-bk2"

That didn't work as it complains about not
finding some source files to patch etc.

The patch naming suggests that it should patch a
2.6.6-bk1 kernel to a 2.6.6-bk2 one.
ftp.kernel.org did not provide a patch
from a bk0/start/initial/whatever version
to bk1 so I assume bk1 being identical to
2.6.5-final. Is that right?

If not, how do I get 2.6.6-bk1?

I googled the net (incl. NGs) and found several things
for 2.4.x kernels (where I already successfully
played around with patches that time) but
nothing with these bitkeeper things :(

RU,
Andreas

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