Applying the Patch

Applying the Patch
As the patches we have downloaded are compressed, the first thing to do is
uncompress them with the bzip2 command:
$ bzip2 -dv patch-2.6.17.9-10.bz2
patch-2.6.17.9-10.bz2: done
$ bzip2 -dv patch-2.6.17.10-11.bz2
patch-2.6.17.10-11.bz2: done
$ ls -F
good_config linux-2.6.17.9/ patch-2.6.17.10-11
patch-2.6.17.9-10
Now we need to apply the patch files to the kernel directory. Go into the
directory:
$ cd linux-2.6.17.9
Now run the patch program to apply the first patch moving the source tree from
the 2.6.17.9 to the 2.6.17.10 release:
$ patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.17.9-10
* If you need to upgrade more than two versions, it is recommended as a way to save steps, to go
backward and then upgrade forward. In this case, we could go backward from 2.6.17.9 to 2.6.17
and then forward from 2.6.17 to 2.6.17.11.
† In this example, we use the very good lftp FTP program to download the patch files. Any FTP pro-
gram or a web browser can be used to download the same files. The important thing here is to

show where the files are located.