CERC ATA/100 RAID card

[John Bown]

Hi Torsten.  Thanks again for helping me with this.  Perhaps you, or anyone else for that matter, would be kind enough to comment on whether or not I'm going about this correctly?

> Get the source tree

Does that mean copying the kernel directory from my openSUSE 10.3 CD (/suse/i586/kernel-default-2.6.22.5-31.i586.rpm) to a functioning box in order to apply the patch?  Could I use a SLES 10 machine?

> cd /usr/src/sourcetree-of-the-kernel-you-want-to-patch

Should the bin file be copied to "sourcetree-of-the-kernel-you-want-to-patch" directory prior to being run?  So, if I copied the kernel directory from the CD to /opt, a copy of the bin file needs to be there as well? 

> patch -p0 < "patchfile"

Are the quotes needed, or would the command simply be
patch -p0 < megaraid_mbox-dell-cerc-support.bin?

> After that you have to build the kernel/module again

How does one go about this?  Would I then need to burn the patched kernel folder back to a CD in order to install it on the original machine?

Last question, I promise!  Is there a way to integrate the bin file during installation, perhaps via a floppy?

Many, MANY thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Torsten Krah [mailto:tkrah at fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:39 AM
To: John Bown
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: CERC ATA/100 RAID card

With the patch command.
Get the source tree and use something like:

cd /usr/src/sourcetree-of-the-kernel-you-want-to-patch
patch -p0 < "patchfile"

It should apply cleanly against the latest stable tree.
After that you have to build the kernel/module again.

Torsten

Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 22:26:46 schrieb John Bown:
> Very cool Torsten!  Thank you for replying.  Since I'm still somewhat
> new to Linux, how do I actually go about applying the patch?