Re: How to make a kernel patch

[D Qi <dqi@freenet.co.uk>]

Thanks, Rene,

Will try this.

David

> D Qi wrote:
> 
> 
>>I made some changes on the kernel source tree (2.4.10) and want to
>>make a patch file for it. So I can apply the changes later on rather
>>than make an archive for whole thing. But, how can I do it?
> 
> 
> Let's say your modified tree is in the current directory and called 
> linux-2.4.10. Make sure the tree is clean (make mrproper should do for 
> the files generated by the kernel build) and unpack an original 2.4.10 
> tree:
> 
> tar xzf /where/ever/linux-2.4.10.tar.gz
> mv linux linux-2.4.10.orig
> 
> now run
> 
> diff -urN linux-2.4.10.orig linux-2.4.10 >linux-2.4.10-changes.diff
> 
> this should produce a standard kernel patch, that you can (try to) 
> apply to a different kernel tree in the usual way:
> 
> cd linux-2.4.x
> patch -p1 < ../linux-2.4.10-changes.diff
> 
> Rene.
> 
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