Re: patches failing - is 2.6.9-rc1 patch against 2.6.8? (not 2.6.8.1)

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 20:59:25 EST


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:42:08PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote:
> I get the following when trying to get the 2.6.9-rc1 kernel:
>
> jkoenig@note:/usr/src$ grep -i fail patch.rc1.info -A5 -B5
> patching file Makefile
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
> 1 out of 13 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
> patching file fs/nfs/file.c
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 74.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 91.
> 2 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/nfs/file.c.rej

You are probably patching 2.6.8.1. That's wrong way. 2.6.9-rc1.patch is
made against 2.6.8.

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