README: Consolidate discussions of -stable patches

The nature of the patches for the -stable kernels was discussed twice; this commit consolidates those discussions into one paragraph. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <[email protected]> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
torvalds · Apr 17, 2012 · 7f65e92 · 7f65e92
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@@ -94,8 +94,12 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
 
    Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels
    (also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply
-   directly to the base 3.x kernel.  Please read
-   Documentation/applying-patches.txt for more information.
+   directly to the base 3.x kernel.  For example, if your base kernel is 3.0
+   and you want to apply the 3.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 3.0.1
+   and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 3.0.2 and
+   want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is,
+   patch -R) _before_ applying the 3.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in
+   Documentation/applying-patches.txt
 
    Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this
    process.  It determines the current kernel version and applies any
@@ -107,17 +111,6 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
    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-3.x.y), note that these "dot-releases" are
-   not incremental and must be applied to the 3.x base tree. For
-   example, if your base kernel is 3.0 and you want to apply the
-   3.0.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the
-   3.0.1 and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel
-   version 3.0.2 and want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first
-   reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying
-   the 3.0.3 patch.
-   You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
-
  - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
 
 		cd linux