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| author | Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> | 2012-04-01 20:53:29 -0400 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-17 04:23:32 -0400 |
| commit | 7f65e924c0cfe0896e31ce3e162b4d10df87ccfe (patch) | |
| tree | 178fb47b04b9e8427cba2c738f78bbb84c32e653 /README | |
| parent | c072c3f0e14f7ae3172771e98e24e2e0741e5daa (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 19 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions
| @@ -94,8 +94,12 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source: | |||
| 94 | 94 | ||
| 95 | Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels | 95 | Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels |
| 96 | (also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply | 96 | (also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply |
| 97 | directly to the base 3.x kernel. Please read | 97 | directly to the base 3.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 3.0 |
| 98 | Documentation/applying-patches.txt for more information. | 98 | and you want to apply the 3.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 3.0.1 |
| 99 | and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 3.0.2 and | ||
| 100 | want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, | ||
| 101 | patch -R) _before_ applying the 3.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in | ||
| 102 | Documentation/applying-patches.txt | ||
| 99 | 103 | ||
| 100 | Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this | 104 | Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this |
| 101 | process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any | 105 | process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any |
| @@ -107,17 +111,6 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source: | |||
| 107 | kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but | 111 | kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but |
| 108 | an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. | 112 | an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. |
| 109 | 113 | ||
| 110 | - If you are upgrading between releases using the stable series patches | ||
| 111 | (for example, patch-3.x.y), note that these "dot-releases" are | ||
| 112 | not incremental and must be applied to the 3.x base tree. For | ||
| 113 | example, if your base kernel is 3.0 and you want to apply the | ||
| 114 | 3.0.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the | ||
| 115 | 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel | ||
| 116 | version 3.0.2 and want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first | ||
| 117 | reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying | ||
| 118 | the 3.0.3 patch. | ||
| 119 | You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt | ||
| 120 | |||
| 121 | - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: | 114 | - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: |
| 122 | 115 | ||
| 123 | cd linux | 116 | cd linux |