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Commit 7f65e924 authored by Michael Witten's avatar Michael Witten Committed by Jiri Kosina
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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: default avatarMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent c072c3f0

README

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   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