Re: What are kernel patches for?

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:09:51PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > Look at the "alternatives to patch" section here. Specifically, the
> > interdiff part:
> > 
> > http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/applying-patches.txt
> > 
> > That should handle your problem.
> 
> Thanks, I've seen that and it told me what the error message I got can
> mean, but it doesn't solve the problem:

[snip]

> "
> 189	 You can use the `interdiff' program (http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/) to
> 190	generate a patch representing the differences between two patches and then
> 191	apply the result.
> "
> 
> Generating a patch representing the differences between two patches is
> not at all what I'm trying to do.

Er, it precisely _is_ what you want to do. You have 2.6.29.4, and the
patch for 2.6.29.5. What you can do is to download the patch which
takes 2.6.29 to 2.6.29.4 and the patch which takes 2.6.29 to 2.6.29.5,
and apply the _difference_ between them to your tree consisting of
2.6.29.4.

I hope it's clear, or I can try to explain it again.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah