SuSE Readme for the kernel says that before kernel building it’s necessary to apply all the kernel patches from serial.conf list (because kernel source is vanilla kernel).
I thought that kernel-source RPM package from OpenSUSE repository (11.1 to be exact)contains “SuSE source”, i.e. patched vanilla kernel.
And I may use standard make oldconfig/make/make modules_install/make install procedure.
So the question is: should I perform pathcing of SuSE kernel source before kernel building ?
mikky m wrote:
> SuSE Readme for the kernel says that before kernel building it’s
> necessary to apply all the kernel patches from serial.conf list (because
> kernel source is vanilla kernel).
>
> I thought that kernel-source RPM package from OpenSUSE repository (11.1
> to be exact)contains “SuSE source”, i.e. patched vanilla kernel.
> And I may use standard make oldconfig/make/make modules_install/make
> install procedure.
>
> So the question is: should I perform pathcing of SuSE kernel source
> before kernel building ?
The kernel-source RPM package is patched.
It is not always necessary to patch vanilla kernel source. I never do,
and I run non-standard kernels nearly all the time. If unpatched, you
will not have AppArmor capabilities, and there are some warnings about
a missing ioctl in the terminal driver, but neither are critical.
There are likely other things missing, but I don’t miss them.