Questions on how to use the Head files Pyun YongHyeon has
created for re driver
Aryeh M. Friedman
aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 05:41:16 UTC 2008
Just to answer the basic question of how to apply a patch take a quick
glance at the patch to determine:
1. Does it make sense to install it
2. Determine from what dir you need to install it from (the filenames
will give a good clue)
Then to apply it cd to that dir and do:
patch -p < [file] where [file] is the filename of the
patch (don't forget to reference its patch if needed also)
If the patch is for something in /usr/src or /usr/src/sys use the normal
methods of rebuilding world or the kernel.
Disclaimer: c(v)sup will ignore the fact you patched a file and will
overwrite it. You have two options at this point:
1. Repatch after csup is done [often hard to tell if you need to]
2. Use some variant of the method in development(8) to create your own
local cvs repo of the source tree then update the actual /usr/src with
cvs not c(v)sup because it understands how to preserve your changes
while adding new content to the file
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