> > I really appreciate all this feedback but it doesn't address the origional
> > question of how I go about installing this patch.
> The command you want is "patch".
> From the top level of your linux source tree, try:
> patch -p1 < /path/to/the/patch/file
>
> If it can't find the files, you may need to try -p0 instead. (The
> -p<x> switch always confuses me, even though it does make sense.)
O.K. - his patch said:
+++ linux/arch/i386/boot/video.S
meaning it will try to patch that file, if run with the -p0 switch.
In -p[number] the number says, how many directories to strip from the
patch given in the patchfile. This is to allow for differently named
install-directories.
That is in you case, you either go to /usr/src and use patch -p0
or you go to /usr/src/linux and use patch -p1. In the latter case,
patch will strip out the leading linux/ from the filename in the
.diff file, thus avoiding a double linux/ in the total path.
> If it reports that part of the patch was rejected, it means that the
> patch is for a different version of the kernel...
Yes. It could also claim to have detected a previously applied patch. In
that case bail out, don't reverse-apply the patch (it would remove that
functionality, then).
CU, ANdy
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