Re: simple question about patches

[Rich Baum]

On Saturday 03 March 2001 12:18 pm, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi, i've got a newbie question about patches:
> Are the pre* patches ( and i guess also the ac* ones) applied against the
> last release of the kernel or against the previous patch? I mean, when
> 2.4.3pre2 will come out, i need to get also the pre1 patch?
>
> thanks
>
>
> David Gómez
>
> "The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
>  whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
>
>

They're applied against the last release.  To remove the old patch run the 
same command you used to patch the kernel only add a -R after the patch 
command.