Re: prepatch-2.0.34

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sat, 23 May 1998 13:12:18 +0200


>
> I`ve downloaded the prepratch for 2.0.34pre16 and tried to apply it with patch
> < /tmp/patch2034pre ...
> After applying the patch I found tons of .c, .h and .orig files in
> /usr/src/linux.

You _must_ apply patches with -p1 or -p0, otherwise patch isn't able
to create new files in the right directory. This is not mentioned (at
least not prominently enough) in the man page.

olaf

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