docs: process: drop git snapshots from applying-patches.rst
Drop all references to git daily snapshots of Linux mainline git tree since they are no longer generated. Drop the "Last update" info since 'git log' is a better source of that info and since the Last update date is not being updated. Yes, I read that this file is obsolete, but it still has some useful information in it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Original by:
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Jesper Juhl, August 2005
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Last update:
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2016-09-14
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.. note::
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This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch``
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This is a good branch to run for people who want to help out testing
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development kernels but do not want to run some of the really experimental
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stuff (such people should see the sections about -git and -mm kernels below).
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stuff (such people should see the sections about -next and -mm kernels below).
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The -rc patches are not incremental, they apply to a base 4.x kernel, just
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like the 4.x.y patches described above. The kernel version before the -rcN
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$ mv linux-4.7.3 linux-4.8-rc5 # rename the kernel source dir
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The -git kernels
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================
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These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree (managed in a git
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repository, hence the name).
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These patches are usually released daily and represent the current state of
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Linus's tree. They are more experimental than -rc kernels since they are
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generated automatically without even a cursory glance to see if they are
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sane.
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-git patches are not incremental and apply either to a base 4.x kernel or
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a base 4.x-rc kernel -- you can see which from their name.
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A patch named 4.7-git1 applies to the 4.7 kernel source and a patch
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named 4.8-rc3-git2 applies to the source of the 4.8-rc3 kernel.
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Here are some examples of how to apply these patches::
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# moving from 4.7 to 4.7-git1
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$ cd ~/linux-4.7 # change to the kernel source dir
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$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.7-git1 # apply the 4.7-git1 patch
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$ cd ..
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$ mv linux-4.7 linux-4.7-git1 # rename the kernel source dir
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# moving from 4.7-git1 to 4.8-rc2-git3
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$ cd ~/linux-4.7-git1 # change to the kernel source dir
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$ patch -p1 -R < ../patch-4.7-git1 # revert the 4.7-git1 patch
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# we now have a 4.7 kernel
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$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.8-rc2 # apply the 4.8-rc2 patch
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# the kernel is now 4.8-rc2
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$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.8-rc2-git3 # apply the 4.8-rc2-git3 patch
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# the kernel is now 4.8-rc2-git3
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$ cd ..
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$ mv linux-4.7-git1 linux-4.8-rc2-git3 # rename source dir
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The -mm patches and the linux-next tree
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