How to read a patch and applying it manually.

supervij1 · 07-26-2004, 07:43 AM

Hi,

I'm a kernel newbie and I was wondering if there was any good documents on how to read and understand what a patch diff file does (with human eyes).

Basically, I have found a patch that does what I want, but it is not supported for the specific kernel that I want to apply it on. If I could figure out how to read the actual text file of the patch, I figure I could walk through the steps and manually do the work that the patch utility automates.

Any suggestions are welcome.

320mb · 07-26-2004, 10:42 AM

in the kernel source directory is a folder called Documentation.
it is 5+ megs of good info..........you should start your research there.