On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Andrea Vai wrote:

> > The "linux" directory is the one generated by a fresh git clone:
> > 
> > git clone
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> 
> Meanwhile, Alan tried to help me and gave me another patch (attached),
> which doesn't work too, but gives a different error: "The git diff
> header does not contain information about the file once removed 1
> initial component of the path (row 14)" (actually, this is my
> translation from the original message in Italian: "error:
> l'intestazione git diff non riporta le informazioni sul file una volta
> rimosso 1 componente iniziale del percorso (riga 14)")
> 
> I tested the two patches after a fresh git clone today, a few minutes
> ago.
> 
> What can I do?

You should be able to do something like this:

	cd linux
	patch -p1 </path/to/patch2

and that should work with no errors.  You don't need to use git to 
apply a patch.

In case that patch2 file was mangled somewhere along the way, I have 
attached a copy to this message.

Alan Stern