Re: kernel patch --dry-run failed?


Subject: Re: kernel patch --dry-run failed?
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 12:40:32 MST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:50:53AM -0500, Pat Berge wrote:
> Mol runs great and I have the 2.2.13 kernel. I wanted to recompile with
> CONFIG_MOL enabled so I can run mol as non root. Anyway I get
>
> 3:/usr/doc/mol-0.9.37/Kernel_Patches>
> > patch --dry-run -d /usr/src/linux -p0 < mol-kernel-pmac-stable.patch
> patching file `arch/ppc/kernel/head.S'
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 85: li r20,MSR_KERNEL
>
> I have not modified any 2.2.13 source or the patch file? Any ideas what
> I have done wrong/missing or is the patch bad? Note: I have recompiled
> this exact same kernel source before and in fact is the kernel I am
> running.

This is my fault. I made a minor corrected to the patch
by hand since I no longer had the corresponding kernel available.
Something went wrong however. I'll prepare a new patch later today, or
perhaps tomorrow (against the 2.2.15 kernel and possibly some
others too).

/Samuel

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