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1. peanuttech says:

   March 30, 2016 at 5:34 pm

   How do I apply or revert a patch?
   the option -Rp1 must mean Revert patch

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   You apply a patch with the `patch’ program. The patch program reads a diff
   (or patch) file and makes the changes to the source tree described in it.

   Patches for the Linux kernel are generated relative to the parent directory
   holding the kernel source dir.

   This means that paths to files inside the patch file contain the name of the
   kernel source directories it was generated against (or some other directory
   names like “a/” and “b/”).
   Since this is unlikely to match the name of the kernel source dir on your
   local machine (but is often useful info to see what version an otherwise
   unlabeled patch was generated against) you should change into your kernel
   source directory and then strip the first element of the path from filenames
   in the patch file when applying it (the -p1 argument to `patch’ does this).

   To revert a previously applied patch, use the -R argument to patch.
   So, if you applied a patch like this:
   patch -p1 < ../patch-x.y.z

   You can revert (undo) it like this:
   patch -R -p1 < ../patch-x.y.z

   https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/applying-patches.txt

   
   
   
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