On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:03:47 +1100 pesarif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:22, richard wrote: > > 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 > That's not how you patch something! > You cd into the appropriate directory where your unpatched source is and > then type "patch -p0 < netrom-2.4.17-20mdk.diff.patch". Read up the > manpage on patch with regards to -p0 because it's confusing (to me, > anyway) and in this case, it's -p1. Forget the -n (patch can figure it > out by itself) and plus it's -u in this case since you have a unified > patch, anyway. > > > 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 ? > > > No, no, -u in this case (see the diff -u :). And just leave it out > anyway. > > > and to apply the patch to the source code within the > > /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-20 directory ? > > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-20 > patch -p1 < netrom-2.4.17-20mdk.diff.patch. > > pesarif > > well I'll be dipped! so _thats_ how patch works!! I've been wondering about that for the longest time but just never got around to figuring it out. That's awesome! -- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux User 182496 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:05am up 3 days, 1:41, 3 users, load average: 0.53, 0.64, 0.56
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