Re: RFC: "SubmittingPatches" text

Andries Brouwer
2000-11-17T16:07:50Z

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Kai Germaschewski wrote:

> One question comes to my mind: Are patches supposed to be applied with
> patch -p0 or patch -p1?

Suppose the kernel tree is in /kernpath, starting with /kernpath/linux.
Linus' patches can be applied by (cd /kernpath; patch -p0 -s < patch)
while Alan's patches only work if you do
(cd /kernpath/linux; patch -p1 -s < ../patch)