Applying patches without git creates problems when renaming files and changing them later in a different change in the the same patch file, causing patch to complain that the file does not exist.
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules
against the kernel-surface package.
%prep
-%autosetup -p1 -n linux-fedora-%{kernel_tag}
+%autosetup -S git -n linux-fedora-%{kernel_tag}
scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh \
fedora/configs/%{kernel_config} \