Re: [Xen-users] Re: Using suse xen patches with vanilla/gentoo kernel

[Tim Post <echo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 18:19 +0200, Stefan Bauer wrote:
> Thanks again. I had a depper look into the suse sources and they offer
> a tool called guards which generates a list of required patches for
> the running arch in the right order.
> 
> The following was taken from README.SUSE
> 
> -------------%>-------------------------------------
> 
>     # Apply the patches
> 
>       $ for p in $(./guards $(./arch-symbols) < series.conf); do
>           patch -d linux-2.6.25 -p1 < $p || break
>         done
> 
> -------------%>-------------------------------------
> 
> So i piped that into a file, removed all further suse patches and cut
> also fixes and so on. result was a list with the required xen patches.
> As i took the latest 2.6.25 release from kernel.org with included
> patches, i had not have to apply the patches.kernel.org directory too.

Thanks! I was just looking at how to apply them in the correct order.
This is a very productive and helpful thread.

Cheers,
--Tim



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