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John Harrison
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With the move to un-versioned filenames, it becomes more difficult to know exactly what version of a given firmware is being used. So add the patch level version number to the debugfs output. Also, support matching by patch level when selecting code paths for firmware compatibility. While a patch level change cannot be backwards breaking, it is potentially possible that a new feature only works from a given patch level onwards (even though it was theoretically added in an earlier version that bumped the major or minor version). Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220906230147.479945-2-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.