Re: How to make a kernel patch

[Ravi <kravi26@yahoo.com>]

> 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)

You don't have to do 'make mrproper'. Instead, get the dontdiff
file from http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/dontdiff and
add '-X dontdiff' to the diff command line. Filenames matching
the patterns specified in dontdiff will be ignored.

Hope this helps,
Ravi.
 

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