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authorKurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>2005-07-27 14:45:20 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-27 19:26:09 -0400
commit896e5518da74f9d20db8163526014fba16b1f2b4 (patch)
treea3e333c22397665b6a87acd393071807f2f74beb /README
parente5c2d749172657ed51e20e4b5ab540447666cc50 (diff)
[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>
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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