Q: Kernel patching

Q: Kernel patching

[Paul G. Allen]

I've never applied a patch to a kernel before, so please bear with me.

Applying patch-2.4.7-ac10 to kernel 2.4.7 I get many messages such as
this:

1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
include/asm-um/segment.h.rej
The next patch would create the file include/asm-um/semaphore.h,
which already exists!  Skipping patch.

Is this normal?

PGA

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Paul G. Allen
UNIX Admin II/Network Security
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
www.akamai.com

Re: Q: Kernel patching

[Paul G. Allen]

"Paul G. Allen" wrote:
> 
> I've never applied a patch to a kernel before, so please bear with me.
> 
> Applying patch-2.4.7-ac10 to kernel 2.4.7 I get many messages such as
> this:
> 
> 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
> include/asm-um/segment.h.rej
> The next patch would create the file include/asm-um/semaphore.h,
> which already exists!  Skipping patch.
> 

OK, I got it to work. My mistake was trying to use patch-kernel instead
of just patch.

PGA

-- 
Paul G. Allen
UNIX Admin II/Network Security
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
www.akamai.com

Re: Q: Kernel patching

[Alan Cox]

> > which already exists!  Skipping patch.
> 
> OK, I got it to work. My mistake was trying to use patch-kernel instead
> of just patch.

If you want the inbetween patches for patch-kernel or for going from ac10-11
etc look on www.bzimage.org.