Re: Kernel patch

Subject: Re: Kernel patch
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 11:26:15 AKDT

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Mike Tibor wrote:

> When I was tracking the ac patches on my alpha pretty closely, here was my
> routine:
>
> bzcat linux-2.2.x.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
> mv linux linux-2.2.x
> cd linux-2.2.x
> bzcat ../patch-2.2.x-ac12.bz2 | patch -p1
> [make yadayadayada]
>
> Then when a new ac patch came out,
>
> cd linux-2.2.x
> make clean
> bzcat ../patch-2.2.x-ac12.bz2 | patch -R -p1 # reverses old patch
> bzcat ../patch-2.2.x-ac13.bz2 | patch -p1
> [make yadayadayada]
>
> You can do it either way (Alan's patches or the incremental ones), I'd
> just gotten into the habit of doing like I show above.
>
> Mike

Thanks Mike, clear, concise & just what I needed.

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Greg Madden
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