How to apply patch?

[Daniel M. Eischen]

> >You should upgrade to 2.0.30-pre10 or newer.  Lots of bug fixes in
> >the driver incorporated into that kernel.
>
> I grabbed linux-2.0.30 and the aic7xxx-2.0.30-pre10-patch file, but, I could
> not get the patch file to update the linux source properly.  Many hunks
> failed.  This patch file doesn't seem to be related to the linux source
> files (drivers/scsi/aic...) -- the patch seems way off the mark.
>
> So, do I apply this patch to 2.0.30 or not?
> What does the -pre10 mean?

It means that you have to apply the aic7xxx-2.0.30-pre10-patch file
to Linux 2.0.30-pre10.  This means you need a clean 2.0.30, and
a 2.0.31-pre10 patch file from ftp.kernel.org (/pub/linux/kernel/testing
I think).  I just took a look,

  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.0.31-10.gz

Apply that to 2.0.30, then if you want, you can apply the patch
file from my site (aic7xxx-2.0.30-pre10-patch).

Dan Eischen
deischen at iworks.InterWorks.org