Lionel, Try using "-p1" instead of "-p0". Patch tries to take the complete path and filename in the patch file to find the file to be patched. In your case, that is linux-2.4.7/Documentation/s390/chandev.8. Since you're in the linux-2.4.7.SuSE directory, it's unlikely there's a linux-2.4.7 subdirectory there. Specifying "-p1" will cause patch to discard the linux-2.4.7 part and start looking in ./Documentation.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Applying a Patch I'm trying to apply a patch to the kernel and it isn't working. What am I doing wrong? root@mlnxd008:/usr/src/linux-2.4.7.SuSE > patch -p0 </tmp/linux-2.4.7-s390-3.diff can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -urN linux-2.4.7/Documentation/s390/chandev.8 linux-2.4.7-s390/Documentati on/s390/chandev.8 |--- linux-2.4.7/Documentation/s390/chandev.8 Wed Nov 7 11:43:51 2001 |+++ linux-2.4.7-s390/Documentation/s390/chandev.8 Wed Oct 17 14:44:39 2001 -------------------------- File to patch: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address) AIM: lbdyck
