Comment 3 for bug 81398

It would be nice to have someone else confirm this. This is how I built my kernel. I'm almost certain there are easier ways, but this is how I did it.

% apt-get source linux-source-2.6.17
% cd linux-source-2.6.17-2.6.17.1/
% cat /path/to/pvr-150-radio-output.patch | patch -p1 --dry-run
% cat /path/to/pvr-150-radio-output.patch | patch -p1
% fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -nc
.... wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!!!! ....
.... eventually end up with a linux-image-2.6.17-10-386_2.6.17.1-10.34_i386.deb package that has the patch applied....

You can install that package, but rather than do all that just to replace one file, I found the compiled module file at

..../linux-source-2.6.17-2.6.17.1/debian/build/build-386/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko

in the source/build directory and replaced the non-working tuner.ko (located at /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko) with the patched version of tuner.ko. Unload the ivtv and tuner modules, then reload the ivtv module. The first time I just tried loading the tuner module, but the tuner type didn't get set correctly. Having the ivtv module load the tuner made it set the tuner correctly. After patching and replacing tuner.ko, I am able to use the ivtv-radio program from the ivtv source (compiled when the ivtv.ko module was compiled) to tune radio stations by executing "ivtv-radio -f {frequency}".

Hope that description helps. And, if someone has an easier way to compile the kernel with all the same patches and configuration that the original kernel has, please let me know.