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 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 ? and to apply the patch to the source code within the /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-20 directory ? TIA -- Best regards Richard Bown
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