On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:07:11 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi Tejun, >> I'm finally home and trying to get back to this. I'm really a bad >> programmer so I don't know what I've done wrong but it seems patch >> isn't happy with me. >> >> c2stable linux # patch --dry-run -p1 <../ata_piix-sidpr-lock.patch >> patching file drivers/ata/ata_piix.c >> patch: **** malformed patch at line 13: > > Whenever the patch file was saved on this system, line 13 of it was > split (probably by an email client). Whenever I see this, I just > join (merge) that line and the next one and try again... sometimes > several lines are malformed and have to be fixed like this. > Randy, Could very well be what happened. I added line 13 (the printk) by hand <SNIP - ORIGINAL PATCH FILE> struct piix_host_priv { const int *map; u32 saved_iocfg; + spinlock_t sidpr_lock; /* FIXME: remove once locking in EH is fixed */ void __iomem *sidpr; }; <SNIP - MY CHANGE BY HAND> struct piix_host_priv { const int *map; u32 saved_iocfg; + spinlock_t sidpr_lock; /* FIXME: remove once locking in EH is fixed */ + printk("MWK - ata_sidpr patch applied!\n"); void __iomem *sidpr; }; Maybe I should have just put it on the same line as the previous spinlock command? I'll play with it and see if I can get it working. Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html