[ Saturday, March 18, 2000 ] Brian Lavender wrote:
> I am trying to apply the raid patch to the 2.2.14 kernel
> and I get this error. What is wrong?
1) Great reason to use --dry-run with patch so you can spot
possible problems before writing to you source tree.
> everest:/usr/src/linux# patch -p1 < raid-2.2.14-B1.patch
> patching file `init/main.c'
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 488.
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 940 with fuzz 2 (offset 12 lines).
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 1438.
> 2 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to init/main.c.rej
> patching file `include/linux/raid/linear.h'
> patching file `include/linux/raid/hsm_p.h'
> patching file `include/linux/raid/md.h'
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 411: rint_devices(); }
2) in ever other case it's been corrupted downloads (lynx print,
netscape save as, whatever), so I'd probably recommend something
along the lines of wget, snarf, greed, etc.
James
