[ltp] swsusp2 patches

Steve Harris linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:57:00 +0100


On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:33:57 -0400, Eben King wrote:
> OK, I screwed up somewhere.
> 
> I had linux-2.6.8.1 source, which I made by patches 2.6.8 -> 2.6.8 ->
> 2.6.8.1 .  I downloaded software-suspend-2.0.0.105-for-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2 and
> software-suspend-core-2.0-whole.bz2 and tried to apply them as the HOWTO
> said (except that instead of "patch < file" I did "bzip2 < file.bz2 |
> patch").  I got told many times that this will create a file which doesn't
> exist, did I mean -R?  So I ^C'd and ran it with -R.  This time it waned
> me about operations creating files which DID exist, was that OK?  Argh.

Creating a file which doesnt exist is problably fine, if its a large patch
it will need new files in the kernel source tree.

- Steve