Re: Faulty kernel patch instructions

[Alan Cox]

> lines) into the kernel sources.  The instructions in the README file
> ought to include an explicit warning about which level of the `patch'
> utility is needed in order to modify the kernel sources successfully.

What good would that do, you clearly didnt read them since you asked this
question. It does tell you in the Docs to use patch -p0 from /usr/src