Thanks for your guidence, can you please share that i do not see kernel architecture on the website. does that kernel file contain both x86 and amd64?
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:51 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com < tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23/10/2014 10:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> actually i never compile or patch any kernel before for some reasons and >> learning i am installing kernel 3.16 stable with patch. >> now the question is when i visit kernel.org website i see 3.16 kernel and >> patch and inc.patch. >> >> i can understand what is patch it could be a fix to some bugs but what is >> inc.patch or incremental patch. >> >> >> Kernel location : >> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.16.6.tar.xz >> Patch location : >> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.16.6.xz >> inc patch : >> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/incr/patch-3.16.5-6.xz >> >> any help will be highly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Yousuf >> >> > > Hello, > > incremental patches do what is implied by the naming, they move from one > minor version in a branch to the next, patch-3.16.5-6.xz moves from 3.16.5 > to 6, so has to be applied to 3.16.5 (only). > > Patches to 3.x.y versions are meant to be applied to the previous main > version in the branch, patch-3.16.6.xz is to be applied to 3.16 sources > (not 3.16.5) and will take you all the way to 3.16.6. > > Patches to main 3.x versions are to be applied to the previous main > version "3.(x-1)", for instance patch-3.16.xz is to be applied to kernel > sources 3.15 > > You can see this in the patch itself, toward the beginning you will see a > section like this: > > " > VERSION = 3 > PATCHLEVEL = 16 > -SUBLEVEL = 0 > +SUBLEVEL = 6 > " > > You can see that in "diff" parlance the "-" minus sign before "SUBLEVEL = > 0" means it is removed and replaced by the line beginning with the "+" plus > sign "SUBLEVEL = 6". > > You may also notice that the sizes of the patches are quite different due > to the amount of changes they carry. > > Don't forget to rename the source directory after patching to keep track > of the real version of the sources. > > Hope it helps. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5448cfaa.7040...@googlemail.com > >
