Since I should document this somewhere, here's the procedure for building the Slackware kernel package. I do not patch the official kernel sources, but it's not exactly a virgin either. NOTE: There's been an exception made for the ext3 patches... 1. Untar Linus' source in /usr/src. 2. mv linux linux-2.x.x (version number) 3. cp -a linux-2.x.x linux-2.x.x.orig 4. ln -sf linux-2.x.x linux 5. cd linux 5.5. Fix ext3 bugs: zcat sync_fs.patch.gz | patch -p1 zcat ext3-use-after-free.patch.gz | patch -p1 zcat sync_fs-fix.patch.gz | patch -p1 zcat sync_fs-fix-2.patch.gz | patch -p1 zcat ext3-scheduling-storm.patch.gz | patch -p1 Insert Slackware's bare.i config: 6. cp kernels/bare.i/config .config 7. make oldconfig 8. make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make clean 9. cd drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem rm * cp -a /usr/src/linux-2.x.x.orig/drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/* . 10. cd scripts rm -r * cp -a /usr/src/linux-2.x.x.orig/scripts/* . 11. rm -r linux-2.x.x.orig 12. rm linux-2.x.x/.version 13. Lucky step 13 :-) find . -name ".depend" | xargs rm find . -name ".hdepend" | xargs rm find . -name ".??*flags" | xargs rm rm drivers/sound/.pss_boot.h.boot rm drivers/sound/.maui_boot.h.boot rm drivers/sound/.trix_boot.h.boot rm .config.old OK, that's it. Now just pack up /usr/src/linux-2.x.x, the /usr/src/linux symlink, and /install/slack-desc.