Each time a new 2.4.x kernel comes out and I decide to compile it into my system, I always go and grab the low latency and preemptive patches for it. Recently, 2.4.24 was released to fix some security vulnerablities so I grabbed that. But there is no low latency patch or preemptive patch designed for this version of the kernel yet. So I got the latest of these (2.4.23 for low latency and 2.4.22 for preemptive) and patched my 2.4.24 kernel. No errors were produced and patching seems to have been successful.
My question is, is this a safe thing to do? I mean, patching your kernel with ones developed for previous versions. I'm assuming that there aren't that many changes to the kernel source code but I'm not sure whether the patch program will give errors if there is something out-of-place?
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2.4.x is SO 2003 
2.6 comes with an option for a preemptable kernel. (You are talking about the Linux kernel, aren't you?) 
2.6 comes with an option for a preemptable kernel. (You are talking about the Linux kernel, aren't you?)
QUOTE(Chun-Yu @ Jan 10 2004, 04:19 AM)
2.4.x is SO 2003 2.6 comes with an option for a preemptable kernel. (You are talking about the Linux kernel, aren't you?)
2.6 comes with an option for a preemptable kernel. (You are talking about the Linux kernel, aren't you?) Yep, I'm talking about the Linux kernel. I'm putting off 2.6 for a little while until it has had a few bug fixes to it. My first two attempts at compiling it didnt work with some modules having unresolved symbols, etc.
I emailed Andrew Morton about it and this was his reply:
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You did just what I would have done anyway 
If that is what the chief kernel guru says, then it must be safe.
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