Re: question about applying patch to kernel 2.6.26
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:27:37PM +0430, a dehqan wrote:
> In The Name Of God
>
> I'll be thankfull if you guide ;
> this patch code<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/1324/raw>has
> been saved as 2.patch in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 directory.
> and with this command applied to kernel : patch -p2 -l < 2.patch
>
> debian:~# patch -p2 -l < 2.patch
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -urN linux-2.6.18.3.original/block/ll_rw_blk.c
> linux-2.6.18.3.hdaps/block/ll_rw_blk.c
I think you should use -p1 here.
Also, try using patch --dry-run if you're not sure that a patch works,
so you don't end up with a half-patched tree.
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