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.
The patch is against 2.6.12.3. A possibly too quick glance at MAINTAINERS didn't show one for README. Signed-off-by: Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12.3/README 2005-07-26 21:18:18.000000000 -0400 +++ b/README 2005-07-26 21:25:13.000000000 -0400 @@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ 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 -- The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. -- Robert Heller - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/