OK, being waiting for answer, I have tried to patch a kernel. Patching was OK (except for rejecting in ./Documentation/...). Kernel making gives: ... Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#25) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 165 modules WARNING: "msr_read" [drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 make: *** [modules] Error 2 .config contains this row: CONFIG_X86_MSR=y I have tried to see all 'msr_read' occurences, 'grep 'msr_read' -R /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/*' output is: Binary file /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/arch/x86_64/kernel/msr.o matches Binary file /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o matches /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c:static ssize_t msr_read(struct file *file, char __user * buf, /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c: .read = msr_read, Binary file /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/arch/i386/kernel/msr.o matches /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c: msr_read(data->id, MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS, &eax, &edx); /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c: err = msr_read(data->id, 0xee, &eax, &edx); /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c: err = msr_read(data->id, MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS, &eax, &edx); Binary file /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.o matches /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/System.map:ffffffff8026b3d0 t msr_read Binary file /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-w-r2/vmlinux matches Where is my failt? gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2 kernel tree is in use. Andrew