Re: [Sheflug] supermount?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Guennadi" == Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski [at] ragingbull.com> writes:

    Guennadi> On Fri, 25 May 2001, ross wrote:
    >> > patch -p1 < <supermount.diff>
    >> 
    >> yep... tried that. patch just hangs! i've tried patch -p0 & -p1
    >> from the top level directory. it just sits there doing sweet
    >> FA. doing the same to kernel 2.4.3 works fine (says patch
    >> already applied though ;-)

    Guennadi> Are you sure you put '<' - redirection? The patch is not
    Guennadi> gzipped or something. From the fact that patch 'hangs'
    Guennadi> it looks like it's waiting for input on stdin, which
    Guennadi> would happen if you didn't supply one to it. For
    Guennadi> gzipped: gzip -dc <patch.gz> | patch -p1 bzipped bzip2
    Guennadi> -dc ... 

Guennadi - you're using a lot of <'s and >'s as delimiters here!

cd /path/to/kernel/source/
patch -p1 < path/to/the_patch.diff

is all that's needed! :-)

Ross, are there different patches for 2.4.4 and 2.4.3 etc?

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