I posted 2 days ago on this old, old topic, but am posting separately now to ask a more general question about patching sources.
I'm planning to upgrade sarge to etch remotely. The tricky point for me is to include a driver for the RAID card on the box (Adaptec ASR-2420SA). Etch does not support this card as reported in 2/2007 on this list. Indeed, checking aacraid.h in linux-2.6.18/drivers/scsi/aacraid shows the AAC_DRIVER_BUILD to be 2409 where the later 2420 is needed (and available from adaptec.com). Previously I simply overwrote the old /drivers/scsi/aacraid source files with the new ones and recompiled the kernel. Is there a better way to do this? Should I check later versions of the kernel to see when/if the updated driver entered the kernel source? And if I do that, is there a Debian way to use a newer kernel while keeping everything else rock-solid stable? Any pointers, even if just to appropriate docs, is greatly appreciated. mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]