Re: Applying Alan Cox's Kernel patches??

[Cokey de Percin <cdepercin worldnet att net>]

"André Dahlqvist" wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Hans Feringa wrote:
> 
> >Can anyone tell me how to apply kernel patches from Alan Cox?
> >Do I just apply the latest patch, or do I have
> >to apply each one in sequence. ac1, ac2, .. acn?
> >
> >I tried this latter approach, but it complains that
> >(the second) patch has already been applied.., so
> >I stopped it right there.
> 
> You just have to apply the latest one.
> 

All patches are inclusive.  To install a new one, uninstall the 
old one:

patch -p1 -R < [path to current patch file]

and install the new one

patch -p1 < [path to new patch file]

Best

Cokey

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