The best plan is to use whatever directory organization floats your boat, and then massage the patches. Start with 'yum install patchutils'. Then usually you want something like diff -rpuNB --exclude={'*~','*.orig'} kernel-2.5.24{.orig,} | filterdiff --remove-timestamps --strip=2 --addprefix=linux-2.6/ > foo Enjoy, Roland _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list