Re: Problem while applying patch to 2.6.9 kernel

[bjdouma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:32:02PM +0530, Yogesh Pahilwan wrote:
> I am facing some problem while applying patch to the 2.6.9 kernel.
> 
> I have done following to apply the patch:
> 
> # patch -p1 < ../../Patches/patch-ext3
> 
> But getting following things:
> 
> missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
> (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
> can't find file to patch at input line 3
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |#--- ../A_CLEAN_FILE_SYSTEM/jbd/commit.c       2006-02-25 11:43:19.000000000 -0600
> |#+++ commit.c  2006-03-29 20:53:29.000000000 -0600
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong while applying this patch or if the
> command is correct then why patch is giving the above errors.

You gotta lose the hash-mark at beginning-of-line of lines 1 and 2
(moise from some cut-n-paste operation?).  Then look at the second
line to see how many slashes you gotta skip (with -p -- looks like
it's -p0 here).

bjd