kernel wont patch, ok now the version number is the same

[Dillinger]

I've been having this problem for a while now, but I'm finally getting around to figuring it out. Whenever I try to patch the kernel I get the following message:

patch -p1 < /usr/src/linux/patch-2.6.7 
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was&#58;
--------------------------
|diff -Nru a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
|--- a/CREDITS  Tue Jun 15 22&#58;20&#58;42 2004
|+++ b/CREDITS  Tue Jun 15 22&#58;20&#58;42 2004
--------------------------
File to patch&#58;

What am I doing wrong? I've searched around a lot but couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance.

[Dolda2000]

What's your CWD when you attempt this, and where is the kernel you wish to patch located?

[Dillinger]

First I tried it from /usr/src and I want to patch /usr/src/linux. Then I moved it into /usr/src/linux and tried it again from /usr/src.

[Dolda2000]

If you run with -p1, you probably want to cd into the kernel source.
-p1 removes path elements up until the first slash it finds, so in this case, "a/CREDITS" becomes just "CREDITS". Thus, in order for it to find CREDITS, you'll need to be in that directory.

[Dillinger]

Yet again Dolda you have my answers, thanks a lot!

EDIT: Ok uname -a shows the kernel version is still 2.6.6. I built the kernel and copied the bzImage over, and doing make menuconfig shows that it is indeed 2.6.7, any ideas?

[Dolda2000]

Maybe it just didn't alter the Makefile for some reason? Check the first lines of the top Makefile - the ones setting the VERSION, PATCHLEVEL and SUBLEVEL variables. They are the variables that get used in contructing the uname response.

[Dillinger]

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 7

Hmm...

[Dolda2000]

That's weird... did you make clean before attempting to recompile the kernel image?