RE: [Xen-devel] Applying patches to xen kernels

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > What kind of patches are or should be safe to apply to 
> vanilla kernel tree?
> I guess driver updates and small security fixes should not be 
> a problem for
> xen..
> 
> 1. Extract vanilla kernel (2.6.11)
> 2. Apply patches (2.6.11.3)
> 3. Run mkbuildtree
> 
> It looks like above steps should be OK. Just asking to be sure :)

Most patches work fine.

> Patches which touch arch/ might be a problem ?

Yes, anything that hits a file in arch/i386 or include/asm-i386 may be a 
problem. You could appply the patch normally, and then modify it such that it 
also applied to arch/xen/i386 and include/ams-xen/asm-i386, then reapply.

Ian


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