>something is definitely wrong with your patch. I just did the following:
>
>tar -xzf linux-2.0.30.tar.gz
>patch -p0 <pre-patch-2.0.31-2.gz
You'll need to do
zcat pre-patch-2.0.31-2.gz | patch -p0
instead. patch doesn't know about compressed files (yet?).
>patch -p0 <werner17Jul.patch
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