Permission problem when trying to patch the kernel

Question

Hello, my name is Rodrigo and I have a VAIO laptop. The problem with it is that it has soo many privative components that are very hard to get to work under Linux. Fortunately, I found a project http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/, which aims to provide full suport to VAIOs in Linux.
In order to do this I had to patch the Kernel http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux … nelSupport
So I started to follow the instructions.
1) I downloaded from kernel.org the lastest stable release (2.6.39)
2) I made cd /usr/src/linux and unpacked the tar contnents from the kernel file into this directory
3) I made "sudo curl http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/ … 6.39.patch | patch p1" and I got this:
patching file include/linux/sonypi.h
patch: **** Can't rename file /tmp/poSN3DW6 to include/linux/sonypi.h : Permission denied
I don't know if I'm the problem or if the patch is "bad".I already submitted the problem to the Issues page from the project, but maybe I made something wrong, any help would be apreciated
Rodrigo

Answer 1

I don't think sudo was meant for strange things like downloading a patch and then piping it into the patch command. If you want that to work, you should either run "su" to make sure you are root beforehand, or split up the commands like so:
sudo curl http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/patches/vaio-2.6.39.patch >vaio-2.6.39.patch
sudo patch p1 <vaio-2.6.39.patch
The generic instructions for using this patch will probably work but it will be cleaner if you look at the wiki page for Arch's take on custom kernels.
Last edited by ConnorBehan (2011-05-25 03:15:06)