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[Clayton Keller <>]

Richard Carlson wrote:
> Clayton;
>
> This is the major problem with using a distribution specific kernel.  
> The distribution vendors apply their own patches and this means that the 
> Web100 patch doesn't find the right stuff.  You have 2 options.
>
> 1) grab the latest kernel from the kernel.org site and apply the web100 
> patch to it (2.6.22 is the latest).
>
> 2) manually patch the failed files.  The patch process will generate a 
> .rej file if a patch fails.  You can manually look at these files and 
> see what happened.  In some/most cases you can figure out what caused 
> the failure and manually fix it.  If not, then fall back to option 1.
>
> Rich
> At 10:16 AM 8/22/2007, Clayton Keller wrote:
> > I am attempting to patch a CentOS 5 kernel linux-2.6.18.i686.
> >
> > When doing so I receive the following output:
> >
> > # patch -p1 < /usr/src/web100/web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch
> > patching file Makefile
> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
> > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
> > patching file Documentation/web100/locking.txt
> > patching file Documentation/web100/proc_interface.txt
> > patching file Documentation/web100/sysctl.txt
> > patching file fs/proc/Makefile
> > patching file fs/proc/root.c
> > patching file fs/proc/web100.c
> > patching file include/linux/netlink.h
> > Hunk #2 FAILED at 22.
> > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> > include/linux/netlink.h.rej
> > patching file include/linux/proc_fs.h
> > patching file include/linux/sysctl.h
> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 411.
> > Hunk #2 succeeded at 1002 (offset 60 lines).
> > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> > include/linux/sysctl.h.rej
> > patching file include/linux/tcp.h
> > patching file include/net/tcp.h
> > Hunk #3 succeeded at 750 (offset 3 lines).
> > patching file include/net/web100.h
> > patching file include/net/web100_stats.h
> > patching file net/ipv4/Kconfig
> > Hunk #1 succeeded at 580 (offset 1 line).
> > patching file net/ipv4/Makefile
> > patching file net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 697.
> > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> > net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c.rej
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp.c
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> > Hunk #22 succeeded at 3617 (offset 1 line).
> > Hunk #24 succeeded at 4298 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).
> > Hunk #25 succeeded at 4549 (offset 2 lines).
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> > Hunk #3 succeeded at 907 (offset 3 lines).
> > Hunk #5 succeeded at 1139 (offset 3 lines).
> > Hunk #7 succeeded at 1323 (offset 3 lines).
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> > Hunk #5 succeeded at 1010 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #7 succeeded at 1041 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #9 succeeded at 1327 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #11 succeeded at 1387 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #12 succeeded at 1419 (offset 1 line).
> > Hunk #13 succeeded at 1446 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #14 succeeded at 1578 (offset 1 line).
> > Hunk #15 succeeded at 2178 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #16 succeeded at 2215 (offset 1 line).
> > Hunk #17 succeeded at 2232 (offset 2 lines).
> > patching file net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
> > patching file net/ipv4/web100_stats.c
> > patching file net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
> > Hunk #1 succeeded at 294 (offset 2 lines).
> > Hunk #2 succeeded at 949 (offset 7 lines).
> > Hunk #3 FAILED at 1248.
> > Hunk #4 succeeded at 1259 (offset 3 lines).
> > Hunk #5 succeeded at 1406 (offset 7 lines).
> > Hunk #6 succeeded at 1418 (offset 3 lines).
> > 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c.rej
> >
> > It has been quite sometime since I have worked with the web100, and 
> > the first time trying to do this with a patched kernel and not that 
> > from kernel.org.
> >
> > Any information regarding the failed patch attempt would be appreciated.
> >
> > Clay
>
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Thanks Richard,

I've gone with option 1 at this point...the patches are somewhat trivial 
to apply by hand.

We'll see how it goes.

Clay