Kernel Patching
 

I'm still working on the folding CD project. I am hoping that patching the 2.6.33 kernel may fix some of the issues I am having.

Ok so the patches dir in the project contains a bunch of .patch files. The Makefile which applies said patches also refers to them as such. kernel.org, distributes patches as .bz2 etc.

My question is: What decompression method to I need to yield the needed .patch file?

Thanks!

.bz2 files are compressed with bzip, You uncompress with bunzip, or use the "j" parameter if it's a tar.bz2 archive.

I did that but the resulting decompressed file has no extension. Yes I could arbitrarily add the .patch but knowing my luck that would screw something up.

Are you saying you have a number of files named something.patch.bz2, but when you run bunzip to decompress them, both extensions disappear? That sounds very odd.

The files in the patches directory are .patch files.As the link shows. bunzip leaves a file like patch-3.12, no extension.

I thought you said the extension was .bz2.

Files that end with the .patch extension are text files. No decompression is necessary. You feed them to the patch application while you're in the base source directory, typically using the "-p1" parameter: