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RE: [Xen-devel] Applying patches to xen kernels
> What kind of patches are or should be safe to apply to
> vanilla kernel tree?
> I guess driver updates and small security fixes should not be
> a problem for
> xen..
>
> 1. Extract vanilla kernel (2.6.11)
> 2. Apply patches (2.6.11.3)
> 3. Run mkbuildtree
>
> It looks like above steps should be OK. Just asking to be sure :)
Most patches work fine.
> Patches which touch arch/ might be a problem ?
Yes, anything that hits a file in arch/i386 or include/asm-i386 may be a
problem. You could appply the patch normally, and then modify it such that it
also applied to arch/xen/i386 and include/ams-xen/asm-i386, then reapply.
Ian
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