Is there any way to patch the kernel. ???

[vhunt]

hi

consider , i have made a change in the kernel and compiled...
so there is soem changes in the new kernel to the old one.

Is there any method to produce a patch that simply change the corresponding bytes changed so that we can convert the old kernel to new, with our recompiling the code ???

thanx in advance

[zdawg]

Not that I know of, unless you wrote a whole module. Which would still have to be compiled.
The thing is if you change the source, it needs to be re-compiled so you have a binary executable.
Not sure if this is exactly what you were asking about.

[vhunt]

Ya you are right, i hav to compile the source again and i should provide a patch that allow others to compile according to their choice...thanx for ur reply..

i got the answer in detail... anyway im appending that here..

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Create a compressed patch file for your modified kernel source tree with the diff and bzip utilities
cd /usr/src
diff --unified --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.22-6mdk linux > yourpatch-2.4.22-6mdk
gzip yourpatch-2.4.22-6mdk

Apply a Patch
cd /usr/src
zcat yourpatch-2.4.22-6mdk.gz | patch -p0 -E
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