I tried to patch on 2.6.16 as following and got the error below linux-2.6.16]# patch -p1 < ../patches/patch-2.6.17-rc4 .... patching file drivers/usb/media/et61x251_tas5130d1b.c patching file drivers/usb/media/ibmcam.c patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line patch: **** malformed patch at line 698588 patch -p1 < ../patches/patch-2.6.17-rc4-rc5 patching file drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.h can't find file to patch at input line 11918 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -urN linux-2.6.17-rc4/fs/9p/fcall.c linux-2.6.17-rc5/fs/9p/fcall.c |--- linux-2.6.17-rc4/fs/9p/fcall.c 2006-05-25 02:26:26.065239650 +0000 |+++ linux-2.6.17-rc5/fs/9p/fcall.c 2006-05-25 02:26:32.265906812 +0000 -------------------------- File to patch: Could you advise me how to patch. Regards Santosh -----Original Message----- From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alasdair G Kergon Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:50 PM To: P S, Suresh (STSD) Cc: device-mapper development Subject: Re: Next set of device-mapper patches On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:42:59PM +0530, Singh, Santosh (STSD) wrote: > I am testing the device-mapper ioctl support. > Which all the patches required for this and can I I apply those > patches on linux-2.6.16. Start from: ######################################################################## ###### # Submitted upstream ######################################################################## ###### dm-snapshot-unify-chunk_size.patch ... and stop at: dm-export-blkdev_driver_ioctl.patch Alasdair -- agk@xxxxxxxxxx -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
