Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: 2.1.36 patch needs --new-file | Date | 24 Apr 1997 01:57:15 GMT |
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.970423182023.5074A-100000@xenophanes.rutgers.edu>, Tom Dyas <tdyas@xenophanes.rutgers.edu> wrote: >The file patch-2.1.36.gz was made without the --new-file option so some >files like the new file arch/sparc/mm/viking.S were not included in the >patch. Of course, diff nicely mentions that such files are only in one >directory but not the other.
Oops, right you are. I made an updated patch (and the tar-file was obviously correct before).
People with an incomplete patch: I'd suggest that you first reverse the patch if you already applied it (using the "-R" switch to patch), and then download the new patch (patch-2.1.36.gz: 407461 bytes). Of course, if you have a fast connection you can always just get the while source archive rather than reversing patches that have already been applied.
I think all the new files were for other architectures than the x86, so the old patch probably resulted in a working x86 system. However, not getting the updated patch wil eventually result in patch errors in the future..
Linus
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