Re: applying patch

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:50:37AM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to try 2.6.12-rc2.  I downloaded and extracted the latest
> 2.6.11 from kernel.org,

No guarantees, but:

Please:
Get 2.6.11. Nothing else. Not 2.6.11.7. Unpack
2.6.11. And apply 
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2>
to 2.6.11. Not to 2.6.11.7 ... :)

This should work. At least it did here a few minutes ago ...

Something like:

tar -xzvf linux-2.6.11.tar.gz
cd linux-2.6.11/
bzip2 -cd  ../../patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2 | patch -p1 --dry-run | less

If you see everything went well give him the whole package:

bzip2 -cd  ../../patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2 | patch -p1

Perhaps a bit dated but one might still get the most important ideas
behind patching kernels:
<http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq/>

Regards :)
  Wolfgang

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