Hi,

here is my situation ,

i downloaded kernel source from kernel.org
and compiled and using it.

debian:/usr/src# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.11-rc4-bk8 #1 Mon Feb 21 17:34:39 XXX 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Problem is, when i compile the kernel source, ALWAYS i have to remove the complete kernel source,
and re-extract the kernel source and patched new patch*.bz2.

rm -rf linux-2.6.11-rc4/ (bk8 patched directory and built)
tar jxf linux-2.6.11-rc4.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.11-rc4/
bzcat ../patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk9.bz2 | patch -p1

note that the directory is bk9 patched now.

linux-2.6.11-rc4 linux-2.6.11-rc4.tar.bz2 patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk8.bz2 patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk9.bz2

so,
Is there way to do not remove whole kernel source directory, just patch to patched directory??

just like this,
in the bk8 patched directory,
make mrproper
bzcat ../patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk9.bz2 | patch -p1

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Thanks for reading.

If the patch isn't an incremental one (like the ones for the vanilla tree) you need to move out the old patch first with patch -R -p1 < patchfile.


Håkan

bzcat ../patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk11.bz2 | patch -R -p1 (in bk10 patched directory)

...
patching file include/asm-x86_64/elf.h
patching file include/linux/compat.h
Unreversed patch detected! Ignore -R? [n] y
patching file include/linux/fb.h
patching file include/linux/fs.h
Unreversed patch detected! Ignore -R? [n] y
patching file include/linux/socket.h
patching file include/linux/sysctl.h
patching file include/linux/tcp.h
Unreversed patch detected! Ignore -R? [n] y
patching file include/net/dst.h
patching file include/net/tcp.h
Hunk #3 FAILED at 832.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 883.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 1071.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 1322.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 1648.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 1826.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 1885.
Hunk #11 FAILED at 1904.
8 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/net/tcp.h.rej
patching file kernel/workqueue.c
patching file mm/filemap.c
patching file mm/memory.c
patching file net/core/dst.c
patching file net/core/pktgen.c
patching file net/ipv4/route.c
patching file net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
patching file net/ipv4/tcp.c
Unreversed patch detected! Ignore -R? [n] y
patching file net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
Hunk #2 FAILED at 118.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 204.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 439.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 832.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 866.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 877.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 900.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 997.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 1628.
...

and the result is failure.

...
include/net/tcp.h:1907: error: structure has no member named `ts_recent_stamp'
make[2]: *** [net/core/sock.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [net/core] Error 2
make: *** [net] Error 2
...

so i have backed to the old method that i used to..

Very confusing what you are doing, but what you need to do is reverse the existing patch, then use the new patch... ie if you have a bk10 patched kernel, you have to first do a -R reverse with the bk10 patchfile, then you patch with bk11... okay?

Thanks, i got it.

you mean

bzcat ../patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk10.bz2 | patch -R -p1 (in bk10ed dir)
bzcat ../patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk11.bz2 | patch -p1

right?

Yep. that's it...