On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 06:36:06PM +0200, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > On Monday 01 August 2005 17:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Patching is easy. > > Not really. I rememeber my beginnings: I never knew where should I have to > 'cd' before applying the patch. > > Then understanding the error messages too. For ewample, patches initially > made > for vanilla kernels may not work on distribution-patched kernels (may be, I > tell). People somtimes have to hack the patch. It's not very, very easy.
Hacking the patch may or may not be easy, depending on the complexity. Actually patching is near trivial: - Unpack the source - cd kernel-source-2.x.y - patch -i /path/to/patch -p1 --dry-run (if 1 doesn't work, 0 usually does) - If there a no errors or warnings, then rerun withouth dry-run - configure/compile/install/etc. -Robeto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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