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| author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org> | 2005-08-09 11:51:35 -0400 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org> | 2005-08-09 11:51:35 -0400 |
| commit | c973b112c76c9d8fd042991128f218a738cc8d0a (patch) | |
| tree | e813b0da5d0a0e19e06de6462d145a29ad683026 /README | |
| parent | c5fbc3966f48279dbebfde10248c977014aa9988 (diff) | |
| parent | 00dd1e433967872f3997a45d5adf35056fdf2f56 (diff) | |
Merge with /shiny/git/linux-2.6/.git
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| @@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ INSTALLING the kernel: | |||
| 87 | kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but | 87 | kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but |
| 88 | an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. | 88 | an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. |
| 89 | 89 | ||
| 90 | - If you are upgrading between releases using the stable series patches | ||
| 91 | (for example, patch-2.6.xx.y), note that these "dot-releases" are | ||
| 92 | not incremental and must be applied to the 2.6.xx base tree. For | ||
| 93 | example, if your base kernel is 2.6.12 and you want to apply the | ||
| 94 | 2.6.12.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the | ||
| 95 | 2.6.12.1 and 2.6.12.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel | ||
| 96 | version 2.6.12.2 and want to jump to 2.6.12.3, you must first | ||
| 97 | reverse the 2.6.12.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying | ||
| 98 | the 2.6.12.3 patch. | ||
| 99 | |||
| 90 | - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: | 100 | - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: |
| 91 | 101 | ||
| 92 | cd linux | 102 | cd linux |