From: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
To: umesh jaiswal <umesh_j123@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to know to which file in kernel the patch can be applied?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:20:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B8F7304.33BAE89A@loewe-komp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F78EdcWCJ2geAvaFI7J00002fb5@hotmail.com>
umesh jaiswal wrote:
>
> Dear sir ...
> I have applied a linux-2_2_16_diff.htm patch which I have downloaded
> from kgdb site for remote kernel debugging by giving the command
> cd /usr/src/linun2.2.16
> $[linux] patch p0 < linux-2_2_16_diff.htm
>
> But after appling the above patch command the console giving the massage :
> type the file name you want to patch.
> I don't know sir which file I have to patch for remote kernel debugging
> support on my development machine .pls help me out.
>
Most of the patches assume that your current working directory is
/usr/src
If you are in /usr/src/linux* try "patch -p1 <patch"
You can browse the patch with less and see at the "diff" line what
the expected hierachy looks like
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2001-08-31 9:53 how to know to which file in kernel the patch can be applied? umesh jaiswal
2001-08-31 11:20 ` Peter Wächtler [this message]
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