> you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any other > kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you would have to > make sure that the files that the patch changes are unchanged between > 2.2.18 and whatever you will use).
yah, i know that :) > I don't know whether you can use non-debian tarball instead of > debian source, but it's easy enough to check - get the > kernel-source-2.2.17 and 'standard' kernel tarball for 2.2.17 and > compare them - if they are different, you don't want to use tarball > instead of kernel package. the problem is that there are lots of superficial differences (readme's etc) and i wasn't sure if it was just a couple text files which were inserted or if there was some greater significance that i was missing. thanks, adam.
