Re: Problem while applying patch to 2.6.9 kernel

[Jesper Juhl]

On 5/3/06, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Yogesh Pahilwan wrote:
>
> > Hi Kernel Folks,
> >
> > I am facing some problem while applying patch to the 2.6.9 kernel.
> >
> > I have done following to apply the patch:
> >
> > # patch -p1 < ../../Patches/patch-ext3
> >
> > But getting following things:
> >
> > missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
> > (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)

This sounds like a possibly corrupted patch file.


> > can't find file to patch at input line 3
> > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
>
> Hmm, perhaps you have the wrong -p option.
>
> > The text leading up to this was:
> > --------------------------
> > |#--- ../A_CLEAN_FILE_SYSTEM/jbd/commit.c       2006-02-25
>
> Since you didn't show us any of this patch, the above looks like you need
> -p2.
Agreed, wrong -p level looks likely.


> You might want to get yourself more familiar with "patch".

There's also Documentation/applying-patches.txt which would be good to
read. Online link here :
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/applying-patches.txt?v=2.6


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