Applying a patch

[David Bandel]

On 6/10/07, Man-wai Chang <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> > No input file -- patch is confused.
> > Make sure your path and patch filename is correct.
>
> same problem now that I entered the right filename:
>
> root at www:/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3# ls /usr/src/tar/patch*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 25115 Jun  8 05:50 /usr/src/tar/patch-2.6.21.4.bz2
> root at www:/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3# bzip2 -dck ../tar/patch-2.6.21.4.bz2 |
> patch -p1
> patching file Makefile
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
> patching file arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
> Apply anyway? [n]
> Skipping patch.
> 3 out of 3 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file
> arch/arm/kernel/traps.c.rej
> patching file arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/pci.c
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]

apparently, this patch has already been applied (or whoever created
the patch did it backwards).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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