Help needed in applying a patch for acpi functions

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Hi,

I’m running OpenSUSE 11.1, KDE 4.2, on an Asus f5gl laptop. I need help in applying this patch:

[01/94] ACPI: EC: Add some basic check for ECDT data - Patchwork](http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1478/)

(See further Asus F5Gl [Linux Laptop Wiki])

This is supposed to get the battery level indicator and other acpi functions working. I’m rather embarrassingly inexperienced in this sort of stuff, so could someone help me with specific instruction as to WHERE and HOW to apply this patch, the specific commands etc? Thanks hugely in advance for any help.

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This patch is already included in the openSUSE-Kernel:

patch -p3 < ../01-94-ACPI-EC-Add-some-basic-check-for-ECDT-data.patch --dry-run
patching file ec.c
**Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!**  Assume -R? [n] n
Apply anyway? [n] n
Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file ec.c.rej
axel@Fatboy:/tmp/acpi> patch -p3 < ../01-94-ACPI-EC-Add-some-basic-check-for-ECDT-data.patch --dry-run
patching file ec.c
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] n
Apply anyway? [n] n
Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file ec.c.rej
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Thanks for the help. Seems I need to keep looking for another solution…