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Linux 2.2.10

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-stable-we-hope dept.

John Campbell writes "Linux 2.2.10, the next in the stable kernel series, is out. It's about a 300k patch, and it contains the fix for the DoS bug recently reported here (if you've already patched it, don't let patch back the fix back out... you are using patches, right?), as well as assorted other stuff. The new kernel patches can be found, as usual, on ftp.xx.kernel.org, where xx is your country code. "

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  1. How to patch your kernel. by InvisibleCraterFunk · · Score: 3

    Please use patches instead of downloading whole archives, saves a lot of bandwidth (bandwidth costs money for the mirrors).
    Here's how:
    First, get the patch (duh)
    now "cd /usr/src"
    and then
    "zcat /path/to/patch-2.2.10.gz | patch -p0"
    You will be required to have linux-2.2.9 installed in /usr/src/linux. If you have an older version patch incrementally.
    Now, "cd /usr/src/linux" and "make menuconfig".

    Thank you.

    PS. zcat is the equivalent of "gzip -d -c"

    1. Re:How to patch your kernel. by phazer · · Score: 3

      You should run 'make oldconfig' after you patched
      the kernel, it checks the kernel for new options
      and asks you everything that's not configured in your old .config

  2. patch-kernel by Booker · · Score: 3

    There's a file in the scripts directory called "patch-kernel" (or something similar... I always forget) which will automatically apply successive patches in the correct order. So if you're going from 2.2.5 to 2.2.10, you can just get all the patches (they can even be .gz'd I think) and run patch-kernel, and it'll bring you up to date.

    Someone please correct me if I have a couple details wrong. :-)