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authorMichael Witten2012-04-01 19:53:29 -0500
committerJiri Kosina2012-04-17 03:23:32 -0500
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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>
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@@ -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