[Click] The most asked question

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On 3:34 am 07/06/10 Ricard Vilalta <ricard.vilalta at cttc.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am looking for an answer to this question. Has anyone succeeded in 
> patching a linux kernel greater than 2.6.24.7 ?

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/click/2009-September/008290.html

I am not sure how many people tested this though.  If you don't plan to use
the e1000 polling driver, I recommend you try the patchless way.  You can
search the archives on how to do this.

Roman

> Thanks in advance,
> Ricard
> 
> On 06/02/2010 06:55 PM, Dishko Georgiev wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have followed Click for some time, but recently i decided to
> > actually use it. But machine that i've got for it, only run with newer
> > kernels, 2.6.24 does not support X58 chipsets and also latest Intel
> > e1000e cards.
> > So i started patching all sort of kernels with 0 luck ( i mean
> > manually patching). Non of kernels are working properly.
> > After hard digging in mail list archives, i saw that many ppls talk
> > about 2.6.31 kernels, but no1 actually uploaded patches for it.
> > So, my questions is: does any1 work on patching lastest kernels and if
> > some1 have working patch, pls send me a copy, tnx.
> > Also, i thing patchless linuxmodule will have no success, becouse of
> > non standard coding of linux kernel, u actualy wont be able to fully
> > cover all changes u need to compile with C++ compiler.
> >
> > Tnx in advance, Julian
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