Are you trying to apply the patch to the pristine kernel source, or to the debianized version? The .deb version has various patches applied already (for additional hardware support, bugfixes, etc.), and so will very likely produce rejects. I'm not sure where to find a description of the patches which have been applied for any given kernel version, but there's probably one available at one of the developer's pages, or some such.
I get around this by downloading the kernel source from a mirror of ftp.kernel.org, and patching it from there. On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:24:14PM +0100, Ian Winter wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems patching the source from the kernel-source-2.0.34 > deb up to kernel 2.0.36. I downloaded the patchfiles from > ftp.uk.kernel.org and applied them using > > bunzip2 -c patch-2.0.35.bz2 | patch -p0 > > It basically fails, complaining about several previously applied > patches and one patch to linux/fs/fcntl.c.rej just fails regardless. > Most of the patches do work though. From reading the README.Debian it > looks like it might be related to the patches Debian have previously > applied. Is there anyway round this? Can I use std patches with a > source deb? If I have to download a std kernel source from kernel.org > can I still use make-kpkg? > > I'm sure I'm doing something stupid here but I can't see what. Can > anyone help me?
