I have Sl 4.2, whose kernel is 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL, and am trying, so far un-
successfully, to recompile it to provide HPFS support for the OS/2 file
system.  To help me try to figure out the problem I downloaded the kernel
source rpm to get at the kernel-2.6.spec file, but in my optimism got the
version for 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL instead (thinking I might as well ugdate).

Now I'm wondering whether this was a mistake, because the kernel release
numbers may need to match exactly for a 'build' operation.  Is that the
case?

I'm only thinking the new 'build' might be necessary because of missing
files that the recompile operation calls for, including

  for 'make mrproper'    the file  'Documentation/DocBook/Makefile'

and
  for 'make rpm'     \ / the files 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h'
   or 'make bzImage' / \           'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp'
                        \      and 'arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s'


Any guidance to help me complete the recompile would be mightily appre-
ciated.  You can no doubt tell that I'm a linux neophyte.

- Dushan Mitrovich