Re: Applying 2.5.4-pre1 patch

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>]

Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> 
> Pierre Rousselet wrote:
> >
> > Patching drivers/char/gameport with /dev/null doesn't work for me. What
> > is the trick ?
> 
> In my case has been
> 
>  - untar 2.5.3 in /usr/src/linux
>  - cd linux; ln -s linux a
>  - patch
>  - cd /usr/src; mv b/drivers/input/* /usr/src/linux/drivers/input
>  - build
> 
> I only have to reboot and see if it works :)
>

Hmm - oops on boot :( maybe later I'll have some time to repeat,
 copy down oops and decode it.

--alessandro

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