Building a kernel with a patch

[Paul Bolle]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 17:29 +0100, Biggus Gazus wrote:
> I turned up a couple of similar threads on forums, it's good that the
> answer to this is now public to save anyone else this headache!

Even if those threads weren't the same issue: should we adjust the regex
I quoted in my previous message to allow trailing whitespace?

> Now I get this ...
>
> + '[' '!' -f /home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/SOURCES/scarlett.patch ']'
> Patch74912: scarlett.patch
> + case "$patch" in
> + patch -p1 -F1 -s
> 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> sound/usb/mixer.c.rej
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] n
> Apply anyway? [n] n
> 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
> sound/usb/quirks-table.h.rej
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.FKUQlR (%prep)
> 
> 
> So I probably need to adjust the patch, but it's progress.

Yes, it seems like the patch doesn't apply. You'll probably figure out
what needs adjusting...


Paul Bolle