docs: Add a warning to applying-patches.rst

This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore.  In the
absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Jonathan Corbet 2016-10-26 16:48:36 -06:00
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2016-09-14
.. note::
This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch``
manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead.
A frequently asked question on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is how to apply
a patch to the kernel or, more specifically, what base kernel a patch for