On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:34:41PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: > I'm using 2.5.70-mm4 to try out some things, but > I realize, as mm8 comes out, that my changes are > against a kernel that will soon be old. > > I know that some people work against the current > development kernel (see quoted article from linux-mm > below), but since I am not using bitkeeper, I don't > know the best way to easily move my changes to > newer kernels. (I use cvs, patch, and diff.) > > How do other people do this? Like this ... ? > > kernel$ cp 2.5.70-mm4-elc/.config 2.5.70-mm8 > kernel$ diff -urN --exclude CVS \ > 2.5.70-mm4 2.5.70-mm4-elc > elc.diff > kernel$ cd 2.5.70-mm8 && patch -p1 < ../elc.diff This article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6183 Might help you out. The beginning of it explains one way of just using patch and diff to keep up with development kernels. The rest of the article explains how to use bitkeeper to do kernel development, so you can just ignore that :) Hope this helps, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
