Steve Pauly wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Could someone give an example of how to patch, let's say, linux-2.2.2 to
> .3?
>
> (I've been at 2.2.3 from sources, but I want to get ready to patch .3 to
> get to .4 when it comes out.)
>
> In my case, I setup /usr/src/linux-2.2.2 and symlinked to linux. The patch
> file(patch-2.2.3) is sitting in /usr/src.
>
> The kernel howto says to do this from /usr/src:
> patch -p0 < patch-2.2.3
>
> When I do this, it deviates from the howto and asks for the file to
> patch!!? I am lost as to what to do now. From other reading, it seems to
> hint that the patch file needs the absolute path to the code to be
> patched, but this does not seem reasonable.
>
> I must be doing something silly here, so someone please set me straight!!
>
> Lost in Houston.
>
> Steve.
I know what you mean Steve, I am as lost using the patch command. This
strikes more hard, if you want to include something different from an
kernel update patch, since there is an easier solution for that:
copy your *gzipped* patchfile to .../linux/scripts
in .../srcipts is a file called patch_kernel. just call it, it will look
for the current version, for a collection on gzipped (*.gz) patchfiles
and apply them in correct order. (it�s possible that you�ll have to make
it executable)
I have a script "getpatch" that ftp�s you all needet patches from the
current to the desired kernel version. (found it between patches on a
long forgotten ftp-server)
>
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