Comment 64 for bug 1433906

Patching and building your own kernel is indeed a bit non-trivial. Some guides were written already earlier in this thread. Personally I've used this process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel

A good first step is to simply check out the right ubuntu kernel, compile it and reboot, then do uname -a to check if you're successfully running your own built kernel.

The patch is created with git send-email / git format-patch, so you should be able to apply it to a git repo simply with

git am *.patch

The patch is against Ubuntu 15.10 kernel, but I expect it to work against newer kernels as well.

There are faster ways to try out a driver patch, but this is the process I managed to get working for myself.