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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 02:10:26 -0400 (EDT)
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To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Patch problem
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Hello


This is practically identical to a question posted by
Jan Jonasson on 2 May. Using the answers posted in that
mail thread I still have a problem with this new patch
for 2.4.4.

I'm trying to apply the
linux-2.4.4-xfs-cvs-05152001.patch.gz on a 2.4.4 kernel
according to the instructions at
http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/1.0_source.html .

I apply the patch in the /usr/src/linux directory, using
the -p1 flag.

I get the following messages:

patching file linux/Documentation/CVS/Entries
patching file linux/Documentation/CVS/Repository
patching file linux/Documentation/CVS/Root
can't find file to patch at input line 326553
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -rNu linux-2.4.4/linux/Documentation/Changes
linux-2.4-xfs/linux/Documentation/Changes
|--- linux-2.4.4/linux/Documentation/Changes Wed Apr 11 21:02:27 2001
|+++ linux-2.4-xfs/linux/Documentation/Changes Wed May 2 01:22:13 2001
--------------------------
File to patch:


Similar errors are reported from other subdirectories,
not just Documentation. All of them seem to have one
thing in common and that is that they want to patch a
file in a CVS subdirectory.

What am I doing wrong?

Another question. How stable is this patch compared to
patches for 2.4.2 and 2.4.3?

Thanks
Magnus Johansson
(I am not on the mailing list.)

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