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Kernel Patching (the trials and tribulations)	by nevdull	2006-11-19 12:55:59
Ok, Myke was on Kerneltrap the other day and noticed this patch to the 2.4.21-rc3 kernel. It is supposed to make a "non-insignifigant" (heh) signifigant savings in battery life on laptops. Anyway, in order to apply the patch you need to be using the rc3 kernel. Now, being semi-new to kernel patching and whatnot I simply grabbed the 2.4.20 source and then grabbed the 2.4.21-rc3 patch and patched away. Problem is that after a few hundred patches it crashes with "patching file drivers/usb/powermate.c patch: **** malformed patch at line 524709: #define H_MD_DQRP_MMR_YCERR1_GRP1_SHFT 0" So I can't patch up to the rc3 kernel. Am I doing somthing wrong? I place the linux-2.4.21-rc3.patch in the base of the kernel source, and run patch -Np1 xxx and away it goes. Is it just a bug in the patch file? or should I be doing somthing more when patching the entire source tree?
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there is a newer patch that that	by Celticess	2003-05-24 08:47:37
-rc5?	by bwkaz	2006-11-19 12:55:59
That's	by nevdull	2003-05-24 12:17:44
Ok it's linux-2.4.21-pre6 (n/t)	by Celticess	2003-05-24 12:43:49
I was wondering about that,	by nevdull	2003-05-24 12:47:52

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