On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:22, richard wrote: > Hi all > > > re:patching a diff file to the kernel > > I tried to patch and got this > [root@fw-gb7tf linux-2.4.17-20mdk]# patch -n kernel-2.4.17-20mdk That's not how you patch something! You cd into the appropriate directory where your unpatched source is and then type "patch -p0 < netrom-2.4.17-20mdk.diff.patch". Read up the manpage on patch with regards to -p0 because it's confusing (to me, anyway) and in this case, it's -p1. Forget the -n (patch can figure it out by itself) and plus it's -u in this case since you have a unified patch, anyway.
> netrom-2.4.17-20mdk.diff patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch > input. > > The first lines of the patch is > > diff -ruN -X dontdiff linux-2.4.17-20mdk/net/netrom/af_netrom.c > linux/net/netrom/af_netrom.c > --- linux-2.4.17-20mdk/net/netrom/af_netrom.c Tue Feb 19 16:06:42 2002 > +++ linux/net/netrom/af_netrom.c Tue Feb 19 16:14:39 2002 > @@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ > * NET/ROM 007 Jonathan(G4KLX) New timer architecture. > * Impmented Idle timer. > * Arnaldo C. Melo s/suser/capable/, micro cleanups > - * Jeroen (PE1RXQ) Use sock_orphan() on release. > + * Jeroen(PE1RXQ) Use sock_orphan() on release. > + * Tomi(OH2BNS) Better frame type checking. > + * Device refcnt fixes. > */ > > Am I right to use -n for the patch option ? > No, no, -u in this case (see the diff -u :). And just leave it out anyway. > and to apply the patch to the source code within the > /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-20 directory ? > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-20 patch -p1 < netrom-2.4.17-20mdk.diff.patch. pesarif
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