At 1155222171 past the epoch, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I'm a little confused why, when I enter: > Hammertime:/home/chuckk/Desktop/kernel/new/linux-2.6.17-mm6# > patch --verbose -p1 ../2.6.17-mm6 > > the terminal sits idle, apparently indefinitely.
As other(s) have mentioned, you need to add -i or pipe the patch into the patch program. Note however that the -mm patches are not against 2.6.x but the latest kernel release, e.g. 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 is a patch against 2.6.18-rc3, not 2-6.18. The error messages you are getting are probably a result of mismatching the -mm patches against the kernels. the -rc3 patches are against the base kernel however, so 2.6.18-rc3 applies to 2.6.17 (not 2.6.17.8). Finally, -mm is pretty damn unstable ;) Make sure you've backed up any important data on the machine before relying on an -mm kernel. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/
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