Hello, Ben, Thank you very much! :)
Boxuan Gu On 1/15/09, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:10:01PM -0500, Boxuan Gu wrote: >> Hello, Ben, >> >> Thank you for your email very much! However, when I used apt-get >> source linux-2.6, it seemed that the patch 12 has been applied >> automatically. Do I need to apply patch 12 again? > > Since there are many different and mostly independent patches, they > are not included directly in the Debian patch (.diff.gz) which apt-get > applies automatically. Instead they are created as separate files > under debian/patches, which are applied as part of the build process > controlled by debian/rules. By using the kernel build system directly > you have avoided applying those patches. > >> What I am confused is that, the kernel image gotten from "updating" >> can support tg3 but the kernel image built from its source codes >> (Linux Kernel 2.6.26) can't. I don't know why. > [...] > > The package is built using dpkg-buildpackage, which calls debian/rules, > which applies those patches. But this takes a very long time because it > builds several configurations and each of those enables most of the > drivers and optional features. If you want just a single configuration, > use linux-source-2.6.26. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. > - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette' > -- Boxuan Gu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
