Very Computer

I'm trying to patch a kernel to make a win4lin kernel.  I want to use
the 2.4.18 kernel but the closest patch available from netraverse is for
2.4.17.  So I downloaded the patch "2.4.18" from kernel.org and the
2.4.17 kernel.  After extracting and copying the patch to the same
directory I cd to that directory and

patch -p1 patch-2.4.18

and absolutely nothing happens.  So I tried

patch -p1 --verbose patch-2.4.18

and nothing happens.  In each case I have to control c.  I also can't
find anything similar to this anywhere, but it seems to me that I should
get "something" out of patch at least a Hmmm or an error message.  What
am I doing wrong?

Rob

...

Quote:> patch -p1 --verbose patch-2.4.18

> and nothing happens.  In each case I have to control c.  I also can't

"man patch" is your friend.

What you meant to do is:

patch -p1 <patch-2.4.18

Note the '<'. You might want to test it first with the "--dry-run"
switch (to check that nothing goes wrong, before doing the real thing).

// Jarmo