I'm trying to apply the No timer patch on our SuSE 2.4.7 system. I loaded the source rpm from the beta distributions disks, loaded the patches from the IBM developerworks site, and was able to use some of the .diff files with no problem (3, 4, 5 ,6-lcs, and 7). The linux-2.4.7-s390.diff and s390-1, and s390-2 told me that they were already applied when I tried to apply them. When I tried to put on the -timer-4.diff file, it applies most of the patch but when it tries to patch the ksyms.c file I get the message
Hunk #1 FAILED at 434. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file linux-2.4.7/kernel/ksyms.c.rej Not being overly familar with .diff files, it looks like that section of the diff file it is trying to change the code in the file from: EXPORT_SYMBOLS(jiffies); to #ifndef CONFIG_NO_HZ_TIMER EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies); #endif this is down around line 454 in my version of the program, plus it has and extra line EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_wait4); I would think I could add these two lines and continue on, any reason this should not work? -- Robert Reuscher NSDHAT 972.884.6577
