For a project I am working on I need to have this commit in my kernel:
It's basically only a few lines of code. In the past I have always been provided with a suitable environment to use for projects, except this time this is a critical bug in our project that needs this patch, and since it's in the kernel I have no idea on how to handle this.
Should I compile a new kernel with this patch in it? Can I just replace those lines of code somewhere in the Linux kernel, or isn't there just a patcher that adds just those lines of code?
I haven't tried doing anything myself because I fear I will break the current kernel. Could anyone suggest the best course of action? I have been told on the Ubuntu IRC channel that I should post it on launchpad.net as a bug report. The problem is is that if this takes longer than a week, some deadlines have to be altered and this is not wanted.
I am currently running the latest build of Wiley Werewolf.