From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: compudj@krystal.dyndns.org (Mathieu Desnoyers)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:30:44 -0400
Subject: [ltt-dev] problem to install lttng
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Message-ID: <20100811023044.GA15468@Krystal>

* al_meh at encs.concordia.ca (al_meh at encs.concordia.ca) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install Lttng(0.220)Kernel Tracer on the kernel-2.6.34,
> On the Ubuntu (2.6.32-24-generic).
> When I use the command 'cat' to upgrade the kernel-2.6.34 with lttng patch:
>
> sudo cat /usr/src/lttng/patch*-2.6.X-lttng-0.x.xx* | patch -p1

this line was for very old lttng versions.

you should use quilt to apply the patchset, e.g.

apt-get install quilt

extract the patchset to a "patches" subdirectory in your kernel source
tree. 

cd to the source tree top level dir.

quilt push -a

that's it.

Mathieu


>
> the output is:
>
> cat: ../patch-2.6.34-lttng-0.220: Is a directory
> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
>
> Is it normal? is there another way to upgrade the krnel? afterwards when 
> I use 'sudo make menuconfig' I cannot see most of the items which are 
> mentioned in the manual forexample "Activate userspace markers ABI  
> (experimental, optional)"
>
> I appreciate if someone help me.



>
> Best
> Ali
>
>
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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
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