How do I apply a kernel patch from the mailinglist?

How do I apply a kernel patch from the mailinglist?

[Chiefdome]

Hi as asked in the subject is there a howto on the net?
I dont know how to apply a patch directly from my thunderbird.
Maybe I m totally wrong

Thanks for your replys.

Chiefdome
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RE: How do I apply a kernel patch from the mailinglist?

[Renjith Gopinadhan]

Download it and apply at correct folder hierarchy  with command patch -p1 <  {your_patchfile}

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Subject: How do I apply a kernel patch from the mailinglist?

Hi as asked in the subject is there a howto on the net?
I dont know how to apply a patch directly from my thunderbird.
Maybe I m totally wrong

Thanks for your replys.

Chiefdome
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Re: How do I apply a kernel patch from the mailinglist?

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Chiefdome <chiefdome@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi as asked in the subject is there a howto on the net?
> I dont know how to apply a patch directly from my thunderbird.
> Maybe I m totally wrong
>
> Thanks for your replys.
>

Just save the patch as an ASCII text file (i.e my_driver_fix.patch)

And patch your kernel using the patch binary on top of your Linux
kernel source directory.

For example:

$ cd /home/javier/development/linux-omap-2.6
$ patch -p1 < my_driver_fix.patch

Hope it helps,

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