[gentoo-user] Newb question on handling of kernels and patches in Gentoo

Initially I emerged and used a gentoo-source IIRC kernel which worked perfectly. I then wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2 patches in this tree are not at the latest level and I a

[gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb

Dear friends, trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian. Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2 patches are not at the latest level and I am having problems (kernel