Re: Applying Prepatches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:42:21 +0100 (BST)


> uncompressed. Normally when applying patches I do
>
> patch -p0 < patch-xxx
>
> which works fine. Is this right for prepatches. I downloaded a fresh 2.2.12
> distribution and tried to apply it aginst that but it still failed. What am I
> doing wrong?

Ah yes I diff from linux.vanilla <-> linux.13p*

Do

tar xvfz linux-blah
cd linux
patch -p1 <../patch-xx

Alan

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