one character indeed

the way I am viewing this forum does not allow it to display the "oppisite of >" therefore in all of your explinations, when viewed by me, it just says patch -p1 and nothing else, but I used the man page and figured out to add that character. Thanks for your fast response guys, you are like

applying the patch

I am quite new to compiling kernels although I believe I have it figured out . My one problem is applying the patch. I downloaded it from where it was mentioned above and renamed it to add-coretemp-driver.patch (which was its original name). Then I put it in the same directory as my kernel