[ale] Kernel patches to CentOS 6 vs standard

Lightner, Jeffrey JLightner at dsservices.com
Mon Jun 5 10:57:18 EDT 2017


RedHat publishes errata every time they update a package, including the kernel.  The ones for 6.9 can be found at:

https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---6/6.9/x86_64/product-errata

You may need a RedHat login to access that though.   I'm not sure if CentOS replicates the errata information on their site.

The previously mentioned kernel-doc package contains a lot of information related to usb including multiple man pages and this subdirectory with several files:
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.32/Documentation/usb
I do see mention of USB 3 in one of those.   You may find information on what you're trying to accomplish (short of patching) by checking into those.


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Solomon Peachy
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 10:24 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Kernel patches to CentOS 6 vs standard

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:20:48AM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm working on some USB 3.0 problems in 2.6.38 standard (from kernel.org). I don't really see these in CentOS 6.9. 
> 
> Is there a way I can see the delta between 2.6.32-696 (CentOS) and 2.6.38 (kernel.org)? I'd like to patch those changes into 2.6.38. 

You'd be far better off going from 2.6.38 to something newer than trying to untangle the CentOS kernel differences, even from the upstream kernel.org 2.6.32.  RH backported a _ton_ of stuff; drivers, subsystems, security stuff, bugfixes, and bugs alike.

Is there a reason you're using 2.6.38 specifically?

 - Solomon
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