Re: my first janitorial

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 1 2007 08:17, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
>   - your patch was cut and cannot apply to anything. A proper patch starts
>     with line beginning with "---" line, followed by a line with "+++",
>     both indicating the file your patch is supposed to apply to. Make your
>     patch with one level directory for the kernel so that it can apply with
>     "patch -p1". For instance:
>
>        $ diff -u linux-2.6.20/Makefile linux-2.6.20-mine/Makefile
>
>     Another solution is to use '.' as the directory, in order to add one
>     directory level for "patch -p1" to be happy :
>
>        $ diff -u ./Makefile.orig ./Makefile

Suggesting quilt.



Jan
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