Re: [uml-user] Building a SKAS patched Debian kernel using "make-kpkg"

[Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...>]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 16:58, Guy Richard Heatley wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to use Debian's "make-kpkg" to build a SKAS patched
> kernel?
> I have installed the SKAS patch package.
>
> I have tried this but my problem is this: I run make menuconfig
> *before* the patch is applied so I don't get to enable proc/mm from the
> menu options. After this I run "make-kpkg --added_patches skas ...
> kernel-image" which obviously applies the patch, after the
> configuration.
>
> Do I need to edit the .config file manually and add
> "CONFIG_PROC_MM=yes" before the make-kpkg stage?
Well, that could work... but cannot you tell make-kpkg which .config to use? 
Also, simply changing the .config is not enough (adding a "touch .config" 
should do the trick). At least, on 2.6 I had some problems hand-editing it, 
maybe in unusual cases.
> I would have thought 
> that the action of applying this patch would auto-enable this setting?!
My latest 2.4 patch does not use CONFIG_PROC_MM, but evidently the skas 
package contains an older one. I don't know if it's even a buggy, old 
version.

However, the default value is anyway y, I think.
> The resulting kernel is working but does not seem to implement the SKAS
> patch.
Hmm, IIRC the kernel did not compile with SKAS turned off, but maybe it was 
fixed in the patch you have...
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