[Voyage-linux] Problems patching 2.6.17

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi David,

OK I see, if you are patching your ubuntu kernel source, supplying with 
"patch -p3".  The patch generated is not quite right.

- Punky

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Voyage kernel source package (the .deb) already contains the patch and 
> no need to patch again.
>
> - Punky
>
> David Balnaves wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to patch my Ubuntu kernel and I get the following 
>> error.  Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix this problem?
>>
>> Is this patch supposed to be used with an already modified source tree?
>>
>> Where is the source tree that I should be using?
>>
>> # patch -p1 < kernel-patch-2.6.17-voyage_3.0-1.patch
>> can't find file to patch at input line 4
>> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
>> The text leading up to this was:
>> --------------------------
>> |diff -Naur /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/Makefile 
>> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17-voyage/Makefile
>> |--- /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/Makefile      2006-10-13 
>> 14:38:05.000000000 +0000
>> |+++ /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17-voyage/Makefile       2006-11-01 
>> 07:27:34.000000000 +0000
>> --------------------------
>> File to patch:
>>
>>
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>
>


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