The patch can be applied by going into a kernel source tree and performing the following:

1.) Go to www.kernel.org and download the kernel of choice, say the linux-2.6.31.1.tar.bz2

2.) Copy the kernel into the /usr/src directory.

       >cp linux-2.6.31.1.tar.bz2 /usr/src/.
       >cd /usr/src
       >bunzip linux-2.6.31.1.tar.bz2
       >tar -xvf  linux-2.6.31.1.tar
 
3.) Copy patch to /usr/src directory.

       >cp mts-2-6-29thru33.patch.gz /usr/src
       >gunzip mts-2-6-29thru33.patch.gz 
       >cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.1
 
4.) Perform the patch using the patch utility.

       >patch -p1 < ../mts-2-6-29thru33.patch

5.) Finally, Build and install the kernel according to the distribution's method.