[ltp] PnP Bios patch help

[Jean-Philippe Jung (Home)]

Thanks,

The Kernel-Howto gives patch -p0 <[patch-file-name]
And I was presented with a prompt asking me which file to patch. With
patch -p1, no questions and it works.

Now I can fight with make xconfig (what holidays are made for...)

Jean-Philippe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Sanborn" <m-sanborn@nwu.edu>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] PnP Bios patch help


> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:25 pm, you wrote:
> > That being 1- my 1st kernel generation 2- my first kernel patching, I
would
> > appreciate some guidance regarding the patch apply process.
> > I have my source tree, I have the patch, and the information from
> > Kernel-HowTo (section 6.1: patching the kernel) does not help.
>
> What command did you attempt to use to patch the kernel? I just used the
> PNPBIOS patch yesterday against a Debian 2.4.16 kernel source without
> problems. In the (unpacked) kernel source directory, say,
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16, I did
>
> patch -p1 <[patchfilename]
>
> assuming your patch is in the same directory. Is it failing to patch?
>
> Marty Sanborn
>
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