Patch for 2.4.12 borked?

[Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I downloaded the cvs patch for 2.4.12 and attempted to apply it. It 
mostly went without a hitch, however, every now and again it would stop 
and not be able to find the file to patch. I used patch -p1 from within 
the root of where I unpacked 2.4.12 into. Is there something different I 
should've done?

Excerpt of patch messages follows:

patching file kernel/Makefile
patching file linux/kernel/Makefile.in.append
patching file linux/kernel/kallsyms.c
can't find file to patch at input line 553522
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -Nur /export/xfs1/snapshots/linus-tree/linux/kernel/ksyms.c 
./linux/kernel/ksyms.c
|--- /export/xfs1/snapshots/linus-tree/linux/kernel/ksyms.c     Tue Oct 
 9 23:39:57 2001
|+++ ./linux/kernel/ksyms.c     Wed Oct  3 16:08:38 2001
--------------------------
File to patch: kernel/ksyms.c
patching file kernel/ksyms.c
can't find file to patch at input line 553630
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -Nur /export/xfs1/snapshots/linus-tree/linux/kernel/sysctl.c 
./linux/kernel/sysctl.c
|--- /export/xfs1/snapshots/linus-tree/linux/kernel/sysctl.c    Tue Oct 
 9 23:39:57 2001
|+++ ./linux/kernel/sysctl.c    Tue Oct  9 23:32:18 2001
--------------------------
File to patch: kernel/sysctl.c
patching file kernel/sysctl.c
patching file linux/lib/CVS/Entries
patching file linux/lib/CVS/Repository
patching file linux/lib/CVS/Root
patching file linux/mm/CVS/Entries
patching file linux/mm/CVS/Repository
patching file linux/mm/CVS/Root
can't find file to patch at input line 553715
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:


All patches applied successfully without rejects, I just had to manually 
type in the filenames to be patched. Thanks,

-Walt