Re: Facing problem while patching LTTng 0.9.5 with linux kernel 2.6.21

* Srinivasa Reddy ([email protected]) wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
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> 
> I am facing some problems while patching the LTTng version 0.9.5 with
> Linux kernel 2.6.21 version.
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> That LTTng patch contains some files with ".diff" extension and some
> files with ".patch" extension. That's why I have given * in that below
> command.
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> Please have a look at the below message:
> 

You should either use quilt, or issue something like:

for a in `cat /scratch/sreddy/linux-2.6.21-kernel/lttng-0.9.5/series | grep -v "^#"`; do patch -p1 < $a; done

So the patches are applies in the series file order.

Mathieu

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> [sreddy@l-blr-sddeg03 linux-2.6.21-kernel]$ cat
> /scratch/sreddy/linux-2.6.21-kernel/lttng-0.9.5/* | patch -p1
> 
> can't find file to patch at input line 27
> 
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> 
> The text leading up to this was:
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> --------------------------
> 
> |From: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
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> |
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> |This series mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits
> atomic
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> |add unless.  Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted
> by
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> |these patches.  It also adds the complete list of atomic operations on
> the
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> |atomic_long type.
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> |This patch:
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> |atomic.h: add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to alpha
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> |
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> |Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
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> |Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
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> |Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
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> |Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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> |---
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> |
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> | include/asm-alpha/atomic.h |   49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
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> | 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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> |
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> |Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-alpha/atomic.h
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> |===================================================================
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> |--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-alpha/atomic.h    2007-05-08
> 00:30:46.000000000 -0400
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> |+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-alpha/atomic.h 2007-05-08
> 00:31:17.000000000 -0400
> 
> --------------------------
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> File to patch:
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> What I have to give there?? It's asking for lot of files like that.
> Please help me on this.
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> Regards,
> 
> Srinivas.
> 
>  
> 

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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