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| author | Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> | 2012-04-02 00:53:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-17 10:23:32 +0200 |
| commit | 7f65e924c0cfe0896e31ce3e162b4d10df87ccfe (patch) | |
| tree | 178fb47b04b9e8427cba2c738f78bbb84c32e653 | |
| parent | c072c3f0e14f7ae3172771e98e24e2e0741e5daa (diff) | |
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README: Consolidate discussions of -stable patches
The nature of the patches for the -stable kernels was discussed
twice; this commit consolidates those discussions into one
paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 19 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -94,8 +94,12 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source: Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels (also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply - directly to the base 3.x kernel. Please read - Documentation/applying-patches.txt for more information. + directly to the base 3.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 3.0 + and you want to apply the 3.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 3.0.1 + and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 3.0.2 and + want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, + patch -R) _before_ applying the 3.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in + Documentation/applying-patches.txt Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any @@ -107,17 +111,6 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source: 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-3.x.y), note that these "dot-releases" are - not incremental and must be applied to the 3.x base tree. For - example, if your base kernel is 3.0 and you want to apply the - 3.0.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the - 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel - version 3.0.2 and want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first - reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying - the 3.0.3 patch. - You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt - - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: cd linux |