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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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
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Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels
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(also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply
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directly to the base 3.x kernel. Please read
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Documentation/applying-patches.txt for more information.
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directly to the base 3.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 3.0
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and you want to apply the 3.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 3.0.1
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and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 3.0.2 and
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want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is,
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patch -R) _before_ applying the 3.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in
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Documentation/applying-patches.txt
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Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this
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process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any
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kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but
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an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument.
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- If you are upgrading between releases using the stable series patches
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(for example, patch-3.x.y), note that these "dot-releases" are
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not incremental and must be applied to the 3.x base tree. For
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example, if your base kernel is 3.0 and you want to apply the
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3.0.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the
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3.0.1 and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel
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version 3.0.2 and want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first
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reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying
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the 3.0.3 patch.
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You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
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- Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
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cd linux

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