Patching RedHat kernal help

[Neo-Rio]

Has anyone patched a Red Hat 9 kernal with a kernal patch from www.kernel.org? I'm going to go with the 2.4.22 kernel patch.

I tried it once, and some of it seemed to patch, but a small amount of it got screwed up in the process with a few errors. When I reboot, everything is OK and Linux still works, although Linux keeps telling me I am on the old kernal.

Is this normal? I'm noticing no real change in the system....

[Icarus]

Did you change your Grub entry (or add preferabley) to use the new kernel? Red Hat has "make install" that will do this for you, run it from the /usr/src/linux directory.

I don't know how a vanilla patch will effect a Red Hat kernel, they highly customize their kernels and even backport some features from newer test releases

"uname -a" will tell you what kernel version you are currently running