Patches

[TheMuso]

I am wondering how you apply .diff patches?
I downloaded the supermount patch for kernel 2.4 and do not know how to apply it to the kernel source. Could anybody pease help me shed some light on this?

Thanks.

[nopun]

From within the "linux" directory that was created when you unpacked your original kernel.

patch -p1 <path_to_patch_file.diff

or if the diff file is still compressed, you can do

gzip -d path_to_patch_file.diff.gz |patch -p1 (substitute bzip as necessary)

The "-p1" tells patch to ignore the everything up to the first / in files described in the diff file.

I would be inclined to keep a pre-patched copy of your source just in case something goes wrong (maybe that's just me being over cautious)

See patch man page for more details.