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README: Add notes about minimal version requirements.

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Paul Mundt Feb. 8, 2013, 10 a.m. UTC 
From: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@huawei.com>

A sensible version of patch is needed, but this fact is presently undocumented.
(Presumably based on the lofty assumption that distributions ship with reasonable
versions of commonly-used packages). We make a note of this to avoid further
head scratching on subsequent tree applications.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@huawei.com>
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 README | 15 +++++++++++++++
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Greg KH Feb. 8, 2013, 4:30 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:00:05PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> From: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@huawei.com>
> 
> A sensible version of patch is needed, but this fact is presently undocumented.
> (Presumably based on the lofty assumption that distributions ship with reasonable
> versions of commonly-used packages). We make a note of this to avoid further
> head scratching on subsequent tree applications.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@huawei.com>

Thanks for this, now applied to the 3.4 and 3.0 branches of the ltsi
tree.

greg k-h
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Patch

diff --git a/README b/README
index 28973ea..00ea32b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -136,6 +136,21 @@  questions about the patch.  The rules for patch headers are:
    give enough information for reviewing.
 
 
+Minimal Requirements
+====================
+
+o  patch              2.6.1.64            # patch --version
+
+
+patch
+-----
+
+The tree makes extensive use of git formatted patches, which are not
+fully supported by older versions of patch.  Older versions will silently
+discard parts of the diff they don't understand (such as renames), leading
+to inconsistent state with some patches only being partially applied.
+
+
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 Many thanks for the SUSE kernel team for their kernel patch rules, upon