How to patch patch files?

From:	Ganbold <ganbold at micom dot mng dot net>
To:	m0n0wall dash dev at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Cc:	m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	How to patch patch files?
Date:	Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:17:46 +0900

Hi,

I tried to patch m0n0wall 1.1 using kernel-patches-410.tgz.
However some patches can't find original files, and some files couldn't 
patch saying creating rejects.
Is there any patching order? Where should I extract the patches?
I extracted it under /usr/src directory and tried to patch in following way:

patch < patch_name

Is it correct?
Could somebody help me in this regard? What patches should I use? 
kernel-patches-410.tgz or kernel-patches.tgz?

thanks in advance,

Ganbold