On 11/30/06, Rick Blundell <rickb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am using quilt to create the patch. The patch is working. The problem > arises after sending the patch to myself for testing. I copy the > received patch from my email cliente and copy it to a file > "test.patch". After that I apply this patch, but hunk failed messages > are printed. > > Thus the original patch works normally, but the received patch does > not. First assume that there must be some difference in the ascii text. If you compare both of the patches in simple text editors, do any differences stand out? Have you used diff on them? Also check out "vi -d", vi in diff mode to compare two files.
I can almost guarantee this is because TBird by default doesn't preserve formatting. You're probably getting spaces instead of tabs or some such. See LKML for discussions and here: http://www.mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird for how to work around it. Or switch mail clients ;) Thanks, Nish -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
