Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 14:33:09 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: Problem while applying patch to 2.6.9 kernel |
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On 5/3/06, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Yogesh Pahilwan wrote: > > > Hi Kernel Folks, > > > > 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.)
This sounds like a possibly corrupted patch file.
> > can't find file to patch at input line 3 > > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? > > Hmm, perhaps you have the wrong -p option. > > > The text leading up to this was: > > -------------------------- > > |#--- ../A_CLEAN_FILE_SYSTEM/jbd/commit.c 2006-02-25 > > Since you didn't show us any of this patch, the above looks like you need > -p2. > Agreed, wrong -p level looks likely.
> You might want to get yourself more familiar with "patch". >
There's also Documentation/applying-patches.txt which would be good to read. Online link here : http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/applying-patches.txt?v=2.6
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