Patching 2.5.xx

Patching 2.5.xx

[Rus Foster]

Hi All,
I've decided to start trying out the 2.5 kernels and I've got the 2.5.47
tarball and the 2.5.48 patch. However looking at the diff file its trying
to create an a and b directory. Is there a special significance for this
and how do I go about applying the patch?

Rgds

Rus Foster

Re: Patching 2.5.xx

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:03:30PM +0000, Rus Foster wrote:

> Hi All,

Hi Rus,

> I've decided to start trying out the 2.5 kernels and I've got the 2.5.47
> tarball and the 2.5.48 patch. However looking at the diff file its trying
> to create an a and b directory. Is there a special significance for this
> and how do I go about applying the patch?

  cd linux-2.5.47
  zcat ../patch-2.5.48.gz | patch -p1

> Rgds
> 
> Rus Foster

cu
Adrian

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Re: Patching 2.5.xx

[Lucio Maciel]

just go into your kernel source dir and patch -p1

bash-2.05a$ cd linux
bash-2.05a$ zcat ../patch-2.5.48.gz |patch -p1

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:03:30 +0000 (GMT)
Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've decided to start trying out the 2.5 kernels and I've got the 2.5.47
> tarball and the 2.5.48 patch. However looking at the diff file its trying
> to create an a and b directory. Is there a special significance for this
> and how do I go about applying the patch?
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Rus Foster
> 
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RE: Patching 2.5.xx

[Holzrichter, Bruce]

> 
> Hi All,
> I've decided to start trying out the 2.5 kernels and I've got 
> the 2.5.47
> tarball and the 2.5.48 patch. However looking at the diff 
> file its trying
> to create an a and b directory. Is there a special 
> significance for this
> and how do I go about applying the patch?
> 

`man patch` would be your friend here:

       -pnum  or  --strip=num
          Strip the smallest prefix containing num leading  slashes  from
each  file  name
          found  in  the patch file.  A sequence of one or more adjacent
slashes is counted
          as a single slash.  This controls how file names found  in  the
patch  file  are
          treated, in case you keep your files in a different directory than
the person who
          sent out the patch.  For example, supposing the file name in the
patch file was

             /u/howard/src/blurfl/blurfl.c

          setting -p0 gives the entire file name unmodified, -p1 gives

             u/howard/src/blurfl/blurfl.c

          without the leading slash, -p4 gives

             blurfl/blurfl.c

          and not specifying -p at all just gives you blurfl.c.  Whatever
you end  up  with
          is  looked for either in the current directory, or the directory
specified by the
          -d option.