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| author | Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com> | 2005-07-27 11:45:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-27 16:26:09 -0700 |
| commit | 896e5518da74f9d20db8163526014fba16b1f2b4 (patch) | |
| tree | a3e333c22397665b6a87acd393071807f2f74beb | |
| parent | e5c2d749172657ed51e20e4b5ab540447666cc50 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-896e5518da74f9d20db8163526014fba16b1f2b4.tar.gz lwn-896e5518da74f9d20db8163526014fba16b1f2b4.zip | |
[PATCH] Add text for dealing with "dot releases" to README
The emergence of so-called "dot releases" that are non-incremental patches
against a base kernel requires different handling of patches (revert
previous patches before applying the newest one). This patch adds a
paragrach to $TOPDIR/README explaining how to do deal with dot release
patches.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 10 |
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@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ INSTALLING the kernel: kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. + - If you are upgrading between releases using the stable series patches + (for example, patch-2.6.xx.y), note that these "dot-releases" are + not incremental and must be applied to the 2.6.xx base tree. For + example, if your base kernel is 2.6.12 and you want to apply the + 2.6.12.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the + 2.6.12.1 and 2.6.12.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel + version 2.6.12.2 and want to jump to 2.6.12.3, you must first + reverse the 2.6.12.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying + the 2.6.12.3 patch. + - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: cd linux |