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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/9] vxge: Modify
 __vxge_hw_device_is_privilaged() to not assume function-0 as privilaged
 function.
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Sreenivasa Honnur" <Sreenivasa.Honnur@neterion.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:40:18 -0400

> I could apply these patches with "patch -p1 patch_file" command.

davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-next-2.6$ git am --signoff x.mbox
Applying: vxge: Modify __vxge_hw_device_is_privilaged() to not assume function-0 as privilaged function.
error: /drivers/net/vxge/vxge-config.c: does not exist in index
error: patch failed: drivers/net/vxge/vxge-config.c:461
error: drivers/net/vxge/vxge-config.c: patch does not apply
error: /drivers/net/vxge/vxge-version.h: does not exist in index
Patch failed at 0001 vxge: Modify __vxge_hw_device_is_privilaged() to not assume function-0 as privilaged function.

GIT is more strict than patch in many ways (not just in respect
to paths).