README: Better comma usage
For the most part, this commit simply introduces commas to offset modifiers. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This commit is contained in:
parent
a20e3a795b
commit
a6144bb9e7
16
README
16
README
|
@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
|
|||
|
||||
BUILD directory for the kernel:
|
||||
|
||||
When compiling the kernel all output files will per default be
|
||||
When compiling the kernel, all output files will per default be
|
||||
stored together with the kernel source code.
|
||||
Using the option "make O=output/dir" allow you to specify an alternate
|
||||
place for the output files (including .config).
|
||||
|
@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ BUILD directory for the kernel:
|
|||
kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-3.X
|
||||
build directory: /home/name/build/kernel
|
||||
|
||||
To configure and build the kernel use:
|
||||
To configure and build the kernel, use:
|
||||
cd /usr/src/linux-3.X
|
||||
make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
|
||||
make O=/home/name/build/kernel
|
||||
sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
|
||||
|
||||
Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used then it must be
|
||||
Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used, then it must be
|
||||
used for all invocations of make.
|
||||
|
||||
CONFIGURING the kernel:
|
||||
|
@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ COMPILING the kernel:
|
|||
possible to do "make install" if you have lilo installed to suit the
|
||||
kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
|
||||
|
||||
To do the actual install you have to be root, but none of the normal
|
||||
To do the actual install, you have to be root, but none of the normal
|
||||
build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain.
|
||||
|
||||
- If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you
|
||||
|
@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ COMPILING the kernel:
|
|||
|
||||
- Verbose kernel compile/build output:
|
||||
|
||||
Normally the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not
|
||||
Normally, the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not
|
||||
totally silent). However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need
|
||||
to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed.
|
||||
For this, use "verbose" build mode. This is done by inserting
|
||||
|
@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ COMPILING the kernel:
|
|||
- Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a
|
||||
bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported.
|
||||
|
||||
If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO which
|
||||
If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO, which
|
||||
uses the kernel image as specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The
|
||||
kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or
|
||||
/boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image
|
||||
|
@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
|
|||
incomprehensible to you, but it does contain information that may
|
||||
help debugging the problem. The text above the dump is also
|
||||
important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in
|
||||
the above example it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information
|
||||
the above example, it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information
|
||||
on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
|
||||
|
||||
- If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump
|
||||
|
@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
|
|||
sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred).
|
||||
This utility can be downloaded from
|
||||
ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ .
|
||||
Alternately you can do the dump lookup by hand:
|
||||
Alternately, you can do the dump lookup by hand:
|
||||
|
||||
- In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can
|
||||
look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help
|
||||
|
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue