how to apply a patch?

ashlesha · 12-06-2006, 08:30 PM

Hi,

I want to apply a patch to my existing kernel tree on the arch/mips/kernel/process.c --

how do i do it?! :-)

Thanks,
Ashlesha.

truthfatal · 12-06-2006, 09:00 PM

http://linuxheadquarters.com/howto/t...nelpatch.shtml
With patch?...
(`man patch`)

Or are you trying to do something else, and I'm not understanding the question?
If so, you may want to most some more specific information.

gkiagia · 12-07-2006, 06:36 AM

Assuming that the diff file is in /usr/src and the linux kernel source code is in /usr/src/linux, then you do:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# cat ../patch.diff | patch -p1

ashlesha · 12-07-2006, 01:11 PM

what should the patch be called though- i have the contents of the diff file -- what should i call it?

ashlesha · 12-07-2006, 02:09 PM

hi,
i get the following error:

Quote:

missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
patching file arch/mips/kernel/process.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 24 with fuzz 2 (offset -1 lines).
patch: **** malformed patch at line 62: @@ -320,6 +294,23 @@ static int __init get_frame_info(struct
what does that mean?

Thanks,
Ashlesha.