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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-07-30 18:14:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-07-30 18:14:50 -0400 |
| commit | de745fb27983770ebfdeaa70f8a36f791fb33786 (patch) | |
| tree | 701555a1a7a2a5ff9a6c67896cf1ea089597750e /README | |
| parent | 08cd84c81f27d5bd22ba958b7cae6d566c509280 (diff) | |
| parent | a670fcb43f01a67ef56176afc76e5d43d128b25c (diff) | |
/spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch 'ieee80211'
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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 |