Bug#1022061: debian-kernel-handbook: improve kernel build steps for newbies

2022-10-23 Thread Diederik de Haas
Hi Dan! Thanks so much for your description, it already gives me some ideas how to improve things wrt the documentation :-) On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:56:23 CEST Dan Coleman wrote: > use test-patches in debian/bin/test-patches. >From bug 1022025: On Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:48:20

Bug#1022061: debian-kernel-handbook: improve kernel build steps for newbies

2022-10-19 Thread Dan Coleman
Hi there! This was me, and yes, it was unclear. The short version is that I was sent two patches to test on a kernel, and I had NO idea how to do that. I first tried installing linux-source (which doesn't have a debian subfolder from what I could tell), but then learned that actually what I

Bug#1022061: debian-kernel-handbook: improve kernel build steps for newbies

2022-10-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
Package: debian-kernel-handbook Version: 1.0.20 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In https://bugs.debian.org/1022025#37 I saw another example of someone who hadn't built a kernel before, found the proper instructions but didn't succeed in building a (patched)