After running 2.2.20 quite happily, I figured I'd try the 2.4 series. So I just grabbed the 2.4.17-1 source package, and I'm just about to build it when I think, hey, the "preemptible kernel" patch listed here:
http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/ looks like it could be useful. Instead of just applying the patch myself, I'd like to try that nifty-looking patch_the_kernel feature in make-kpkg. How do I go about turning a simple diff into the correct structure that patch_the_kernel expects? I have found minimal documentation (although sufficient) on how to use patch_the_kenl for existing kernel-patch-*.deb packages. But I've found nothing on how to do it myself. Phil P.S.- Under what exact conditions I need to get the kernel-headers-XYZ package continues to elude me, but nothing's broken yet. -- If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams