Today I wanted to give the MA's patches from 17.02. a try. I use the newest cvs dvb-kernel drivers. Patching gives me: /usr/src/dvb-kernel>patch -p6 -i /home/samba/pool/Linux/mm/17-Feb-05-Twinhan-1.diff patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/bt878.c patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/bt878.h patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. Hunk #2 FAILED at 30. Hunk #5 FAILED at 111. Hunk #15 FAILED at 940. Hunk #17 FAILED at 1013. Hunk #22 FAILED at 1301. Hunk #23 FAILED at 1331. 7 out of 24 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c.rej patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_priv.h patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c Hunk #2 FAILED at 161. Hunk #3 FAILED at 184. Hunk #5 FAILED at 348. Hunk #6 succeeded at 420 (offset 14 lines). Hunk #7 FAILED at 463. Hunk #8 FAILED at 619. Hunk #9 FAILED at 760. 6 out of 9 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c.rej patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.h Hunk #1 succeeded at 31 with fuzz 1. patching file linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/Makefile Are some of them already included ? Could you do a rediff ? S.