Re: [OT]IDE patch help

[Andrea Vettorello <molotov@dei.unipd.it>]

Cam wrote:

> I'm attempting to use the IDE patch that I got from kernel.org.  However
> I'm running into a problem.  Everytime I try to patch it...i get this
> error:
> bash-2.05# zcat ide.2.4.7-p3.all.07092001.patch.gz | patch -p0
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?

Probably yes =)

>
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -urN linux-2.4.7-p3-pristine/CREDITS linux-2.4.7-p3.tf/CREDITS
> |--- linux-2.4.7-p3-pristine/CREDITS    Thu Jul  5 22:50:41 2001
> |+++ linux-2.4.7-p3.tf/CREDITS  Thu Jul  5 23:40:01 2001
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
>
> from there is ask me what file to patch and I have no idea what its
> talking about.  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>

So, cd to the kernel-source directory and try with  zcat ide.2.4.7-p3.all.07092001.patch.gz | patch -p1 (note the 1 instead of 0), and then give a look to man patch...


Andrea