On 5/3/06, Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> 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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