Patching the Linux Kernel

During this week I managed to get the newer kernel version to work with oprofile: I had to make changes to a couple of source file to get it to compile. Then I tried to make a patch file by using the diff command that checks the differences that exist between nonpatched and patched kernel files. But applying this patch didn't work. So, now I googled how to create a patch file again and found some things here that I probably did wrong:

• When creating the patch, the new kernel was compiled, which explains the fact that I genereated a 200 MB patch when using the root folders of the kernels.


• "Do not ever create a patch with uneven directories" does the site state, well I guess this is what I did.

Next week I'll first try to get this patch working, afterwards I'll start writing a Python application that already gathers one of the parameters (learning the Python language in the mean time).