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+#!/bin/sh
+# A little script I whipped up to make it easy to
+# patch source trees and have sane error handling
+# -Erik
+#
+# (c) 2002 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
+
+# Set directories from arguments, or use defaults.
+targetdir=${1-.}
+patchdir=${2-../kernel-patches}
+patchpattern=${3-*}
+
+if [ ! -d "${targetdir}" ] ; then
+    echo "Aborting.  '${targetdir}' is not a directory."
+    exit 1
+fi
+if [ ! -d "${patchdir}" ] ; then
+    echo "Aborting.  '${patchdir}' is not a directory."
+    exit 1
+fi
+    
+for i in ${patchdir}/${patchpattern} ; do 
+    case "$i" in
+	*.gz)
+	type="gzip"; uncomp="gunzip -dc"; ;; 
+	*.bz)
+	type="bzip"; uncomp="bunzip -dc"; ;; 
+	*.bz2)
+	type="bzip2"; uncomp="bunzip2 -dc"; ;; 
+	*.zip)
+	type="zip"; uncomp="unzip -d"; ;; 
+	*.Z)
+	type="compress"; uncomp="uncompress -c"; ;; 
+	*)
+	type="plaintext"; uncomp="cat"; ;; 
+    esac
+    [ -d "${i}" ] && echo "Ignoring subdirectory ${i}" && continue	
+    echo ""
+    echo "Applying ${i} using ${type}: " 
+    ${uncomp} ${i} | ${PATCH:-patch} -f -p1 -d ${targetdir}
+    if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
+        echo "Patch failed!  Please fix $i!"
+	exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+# Check for rejects...
+if [ "`find $targetdir/ '(' -name '*.rej' -o -name '.*.rej' ')' -print`" ] ; then
+    echo "Aborting.  Reject files found."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Remove backup files
+find $targetdir/ '(' -name '*.orig' -o -name '.*.orig' ')' -exec rm -f {} \;