+++ Philip S Tellis [linux-india] <26/04/02 11:08 +0530>:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > then there's patch -p1 which you can use of course - unless something
> > drastic has changed.
> 
> Ummm.... patch -p1 says to ignore the top level directory in the patch 
> file, -p0 says use the full path, -p2 says ignore the top two levels, 
> and so on.

yup. when you consider that the diff will be against the previous kernel
version ... you would definitely have to ignore the top level directory if
you patch against a different kernel.

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
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