Well,
the basic reason is that the patches on developerworks are meant to be
applied on an
unchanged "vanilla" kernel as from http://www.kernel.org
Every distributor patches the kernel in a way so that the patches on
developerworks
may or may not apply cleanly. Apart from applying, it is also th
Wolfe, Gordon W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and so on. I'm not really that familiar with the patch and
> diff process.
> Why do some work and not others? Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
I haven't looked at the kernel source that SuSE ships for 2.4,
but the answer is most likely
I'm in the process of trying to install the "jiffies patch" from the
developerworks site below for SuSE Linux 2.4.7. I got the .tar.gz files and
un-tar-ed them. I placed the file linux-2.4.7-timer-3.diff in the
/usr/src/linux directory, did a cd to that directory and did a
patch -p1 -R < linux
