Kernel Preemption patch

Allen Curtis acurtis at onz.com
Mon Feb 24 09:33:55 EST 2003


> Has anyone successfully applied and run the linux kernel
> preemption patch on
> a 2.4.20 kernel. I have the following:
>
> - Latest Denx kernel (2_4_devel) running on 440GP ebony
> - 'preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.20-1.patch' applied to my kernel source
>   (I manually corrected a couple of fails and double checked a few
>    'successfully applied with fuzz' instances when applying the patch).
> - Kernel compiled with 'Kernel preemption =y' in make oldconfig

Yes, but didn't you get any compile errors? There are some missing brackets,
etc. to fix. Check the attached message from this list.
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