On 2008-11-05 22:20 +0100, Mark Copper wrote: > 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).
I suppose that should read AAR-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? Yes, especially 2.6.24 which is available in etch. > And > if I do that, is there a Debian way to use a newer kernel while keeping > everything else rock-solid stable? The easiest way is to use a linux-image-2.6-something package from backports.org. Note that third-party modules included in Debian stable will often not build against newer kernels. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]