How To Apply Patch to Kernel Source

Go to directory which holds the kernel source code# cd /usr/src/linux# bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-x.y.z.bz2 patch -p1 –dry-run–dry-run option to check that the patch applies cleanly. It can be a real pain to pull out a partially-applied patch. The -p1 option strips off part of the diff file’s pathnames for each changed file (see the patch(1) manpage for more details).Now you’ve checked that it