[Click] Unable to patch e1000 for Linux 2.6.24.7

[Martti Kuparinen]

Roman Chertov wrote:

> You cannot patch the e1000 driver  that is bundled with 2.6.24.7.  You
> have to get a e1000-7.3.20 driver from sourceforge and then patch it.

And what else?

ROOT router:~> uname -srm
Linux 2.6.24.7 x86_64

ROOT router:~> rm -rf e1000-7.3.20
ROOT router:~> tar xzf e1000-7.3.20.tar.gz
ROOT router:~> cd e1000-7.3.20/src
ROOT router:~/e1000-7.3.20/src> patch -p2 < 
~/click/drivers/e1000-7.3.20-polling.patch
patching file Makefile
patching file e1000.h
patching file e1000_main.c
patching file e1000_param.c
ROOT router:~/e1000-7.3.20/src> make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.7/build SUBDIRS=/root/e1000-7.3.20/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/linux-2.6.24.7'
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in 
"/root/e1000-7.3.20/src/Makefile". Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/e1000-7.3.20/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/linux-2.6.24.7'
make: *** [default] Error 2
ROOT router:~/e1000-7.3.20/src>