How do you patch a driver?

Foo Ji-Haw sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/3/2005 10:03:
> Hello Subhro,
>
> Thanks for your help. From the link I have the
following files:
>
> ata-mk3m.diff-current.gz (2k)
> ata-mk3m.diff-releng5.gz (2k)
> ata-mk3m.tar.gz (100k)
> ata-mk3n-releng5.tar.gz (113k)
> ata-mk3n.diff-releng5.gz (2k)
>
> Which file should I be using? Is 'current' better than
'releng5'? Do I also
> need to download a pair of files:
ata-mk3m.diff-current.gz with
> ata-mk3m.tar.gz?
>
> Sorry, but I am quite confused with kernal patching.
Recompiling yes, but
> never patched in my life.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Subhro" <subhro.kargmail.com>
> To: "Foo Ji-Haw" <jhfoonexlabs.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-questionsfreebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:53 AM
> Subject: Re: How do you patch a driver?
>
>
>   
>> Foo Ji-Haw sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/3/2005
8:46:
>>     
>>> Hello Gheorghe,
>>>
>>> I read with interest your success in getting
your Adaptec 1210SA to work
>>>       
> on FreeBSD. In your email you wrote that you downloaded
patches to the
> driver code (and recompiled the kernel?) from
> http://people.free
bsd.org/~sos/ATA
>   
>>> I downloaded the files myself, but am not sure
how to proceed from
>>>       
> there. Can you please give me some pointers on the next
steps?
>   
>>> Appreciate your help, thanks!
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>> The general way to patch a driver is patch -p0 <
patch_file. The patch
>> file is to be copied in the first level directory
of the source code.
>>
>> Thanks
>> S.
>>
>>     

You need to read the handbook. Read through the chapter
describing the 
different trees of development. If you want to run the OS on
a 
production box I would recommend stable. Current is only for
developers. 
BTW, your mail client indents the replies incorrectly. I can
see that 
you are using Microsoft Outlook 6.0. I would recommend get
Thunderbird. 
It's a much better client alltogether.

Thanks
S.

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