On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I > could download the tarball and try to compile it. Or am I on the wrong > track?
You might want to reconsider that. 4.1.2 is too new, it is not nearly as safe as you might think to use that kernel. Actually, if the patch you need already went to sta...@lists.kernel.org, it will land in 3.16-ckt (the longterm branch that is "upstream" of the Debian jessie kernel), and maybe even in a Debian kernel update, well before I'd consider 4.1.y safe to use. So, IMHO, it would be safer for you to get the Debian kernel sources, and attempt to add the relevant patch, "cherry picked" from 4.1.2 (or if you wait for it, from 3.16-ckt). This is the "upstream" tree for 3.16 longterm (aka 3.16-ckt), it is maintained by the Canonical Kernel Team: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y Note that the Debian kernel has a lot more patches on top of 3.16-ckt. This is the Debian jessie kernel tree (development), maintained by the Debian kernel team: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/jessie/linux/ You will need to read this to build a development snapshot of the Debian jessie kernel: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/jessie/linux/debian/README.source?view=markup -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150712024547.gb22...@khazad-dum.debian.net
