kernel patching problem

bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

I am doing something wrong when applying .bz2 kernel patches. I bunzip2 the patch, link the kernel source dir to /usr/src/linux and run:
patch -p1 < patch

I get an error about possibly using the wrong -p or --strip options and a promt asking for the file to patch. A little help please.
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ebrostig · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 11:32 pm Post subject:

Try using -p0.

The number after p gives the default path reduction parameter. I.e how it chops off parts of the path in the patch file. Normally you should use -p0 when INSIDE the source tree and -p1 from the level above.

Erik
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bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

But I thought I was running -p1 from /usr/src, when the sources were in /usr/src/linux. Thanks, by the way.
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MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk
Ryzen 3900x
32Gb Samsung B-die (16GB dual rank x2) DDR4 @ 3200MHz, cl14
Geforce RTX 2070S 8GB
Samsung m.2 NVME pcie-3.0
Etc....