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| author | Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk> | 2005-07-28 09:30:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2005-07-28 09:30:20 +0100 |
| commit | 661299d9d0437a0ff72240f3d60016ac3a361a6e (patch) | |
| tree | 765512576314fc3612b503f182b9ae4e60fcf849 /README | |
| parent | 05caac585f8abd6c0113856bc8858e3ef214d8a6 (diff) | |
| parent | 41c018b7ecb60b1c2c4d5dee0cd37d32a94c45af (diff) | |
Merge with Linus' 2.6 tree
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@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ INSTALLING the kernel: kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. + - If you are upgrading between releases using the stable series patches + (for example, patch-2.6.xx.y), note that these "dot-releases" are + not incremental and must be applied to the 2.6.xx base tree. For + example, if your base kernel is 2.6.12 and you want to apply the + 2.6.12.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the + 2.6.12.1 and 2.6.12.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel + version 2.6.12.2 and want to jump to 2.6.12.3, you must first + reverse the 2.6.12.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying + the 2.6.12.3 patch. + - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: cd linux |