Re: Applying kernel patches

[Ben Collins <bmc@it.larc.nasa.gov>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:34:26AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I have the source for 2.2.0-pre2 and all the patches up to pre9.  When I
> try to apply these patches with patch-kernel, I just get the result
>
> Current kernel version is 2.2.0
> 
> I assume this is because the patch-kernel script won't handle the 'preX'
> suffix.  It there a patch anywhere for the patch script?

Try this:

cd /usr/src
zcat patch-2.2.0-pre3.gz | patch -p0
(or)
cat patch-2.2.0-pre3 | patch -p0
(do this for each pre patch, starting from the lowest number)

Afterwards you will have a fully patched up pre9 source :)

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