On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Jim Paris [off-list ref] wrote:

Randy Dunlap wrote:

quoted

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:07:11 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tejun Heo [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Tejun,
   I'm finally home and trying to get back to this. I'm really a bad
programmer so I don't know what I've done wrong but it seems patch
isn't happy with me.

c2stable linux # patch --dry-run -p1 <../ata_piix-sidpr-lock.patch
patching file drivers/ata/ata_piix.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 13:

Whenever the patch file was saved on this system, line 13 of it was
split (probably by an email client).  Whenever I see this, I just
join (merge) that line and the next one and try again... sometimes
several lines are malformed and have to be fixed like this.

Tejun asked Mark to add a printk, and Mark added it directly to the
patch.  Mark, just apply the original patch as-is, and then add the
printk to the source code in ata_piix.c.  You should add it somewhere
like the piix_init_one function, e.g. right before the "Save IOCFG"
comment around line 1575.

-jim

Thanks Jim. I'll give it a shot.

Cheers,
Mark