I believe the process you've described patches kernel source. You don't
mention the step of recompiling and reinstalling your kernel after doing the
patch. Did you do these steps and not mention them as too obvious, or did
you omit them?
At 01:37 PM 7/16/00 -0400, 1stFlight ! wrote:
...
>I just tried updating my kernel from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 using the patch. I
>used Netscape to download it, which changed it from a gz to the unziped
>form I think (when it arrived it the .gz extension had been removed).
>Then using "patch -p0 < patch2.2.16" it appeared to update my kernel.
>But after rebooting and doing a "uname -a" it still shows my kernel as
>2.2.15. Did I miss something?
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