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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:05:22 -0800
From: Rick Knight <rick_knight@rlknight.com>
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To: Julien Didron <jdidron@tripnotik.dyndns.org>,
       norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx
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Subject: Re: How to apply -mm patch?
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Julien Didron wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    Instructions can be found in the Readme file included in the sources
>    basically you should cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.4
>    then cat ../2.6.4-mm | patch -p1 (2.6.4-mm being uncompressed in 
> /usr/src, of course)
>    I had an issue with that patch, you should also patch the Makefile 
> in /usr/src/linux-2.6.4 with this
>    line 990 to 995 should be replaced with that chunk (without 
> including the numbers) :    990          $(cmd_$(1)); \
>   991          scripts/basic/fixdep $(depfile) $@ '$(subst \
>   992          $$,$$$$,$(subst ','\
>   993          '',$(cmd_$(1))))' > $(@D)/.$(@F).tmp; \
>   994          rm -f $(depfile); \
>   995          mv -f $(@D)/.$(@F).tmp $(@D)/.$(@F).cmd)
>
>    cheers
>
>    Julien
>
> Richard W. Knight wrote:
>
>> I've looked everywhere but can't find any instruction on how to apply 
>> the -mm patches. I've tried "patch -p0 < 2.6.4-mm" and this seems to 
>> run without error, but the resulting source won't build. Can someone 
>> give me a quick example of how to apply the 2.6.4-mm patch to 
>> linux-2.6.4?
>>
>> In answering this message, please CC me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick Knight
>> (rick_knight@rlknight.com)
>>
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Thanks Julien and Norberto,

That worked.

Rick Knight
(rick@rlknight.com)

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