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I have been provided with a patch file for Linux kernel 3.18.3 and must use it with a custom Linux kernel scheduler. By default, it's used in "Debian GNU Linux Wheezy 7.8.2 (32bit) - linux 3.18.3". Details here.

But now, I want to use it with Linux kernel 3.18.3, downloaded from kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/. I downloaded that kernel, copied the patch file to the linux-3.18.3 folder, then ran git apply dummy.patch but this was not successful.

I've also been provided with the "config.txt" file. I tried to use the config file before using the patch file but got the same result.

Here is the output: 

dummy.patch: trailing whitespace
...
error: patch failed: include/linux/sched.h:1167
error: include/linux/sched.h: patch does not apply
error: include/linux/sched/sysctl.h: No such file or directory
....
error: kernel/sched/sched.h: patch does not apply
osgx
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    Why are you using a `git apply` command? Also, can you link to the patch file as well? – merlin2011 Jun 03 '16 at 20:46
  • You may try `--ignore-whitespace` or `--whitespace=warn` option of `git apply` or try running `patch -p0 < dummy.patch` command; but one of errors is about absent file, so I think the patch is not compatible with kernel.org's kernel without some other patch, which was used by debian. – osgx Jun 03 '16 at 20:48

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