Applying a patch file to source code

Question

Hi,
In reference to this post: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=30515#p30515
Please could someone explain to me how to apply the patch to the source code?
I tried: cat patch_file | patch -p0 where patch_file contained the patch code,
[jack@tmain L2-linux-driver_new]$ cat patch_file | patch -p0
can't find file to patch at input line 5
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|Only in l2.fixed: Module.symvers
|diff -u l2/at_ethtool.c l2.fixed/at_ethtool.c
|--- l2/at_ethtool.c 2007-04-20 09:34:48.000000000 +0200
|+++ l2.fixed/at_ethtool.c 2007-11-25 01:58:24.000000000 +0100
My directory structure is as follows:
[jack@tmain L2-linux-driver_new]$ ls -R
COPYING atl2.spec patch_file release_note.txt
atl2.7 ldistrib.txt readme src
./src:
Makefile at_ethtool.c at_hw.h at_osdep.h kcompat.c kcompat_ethtool.c
at.h at_hw.c at_main.c at_param.c kcompat.h
I tried renaming src to l2, but that gave me further errors.
Any ideas?
Thanks alot,
Jack
Last edited by tntcoda (2007-12-25 23:55:43)

Answer 1

Thanks, that gave me:
[jack@tmain l2]$ patch -Np1 -i patch_file
can't find file to patch at input line 5
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
|Only in l2.fixed: Module.symvers
|diff -u l2/at_ethtool.c l2.fixed/at_ethtool.c
|--- l2/at_ethtool.c 2007-04-20 09:34:48.000000000 +0200
|+++ l2.fixed/at_ethtool.c
Thats the same even if i rename src to l2, so that l2/at_ethtool.c exists.