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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>
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137 | 137 | |
138 | 138 | BUILD directory for the kernel: |
139 | 139 | |
140 | - When compiling the kernel all output files will per default be | |
140 | + When compiling the kernel, all output files will per default be | |
141 | 141 | stored together with the kernel source code. |
142 | 142 | Using the option "make O=output/dir" allow you to specify an alternate |
143 | 143 | place for the output files (including .config). |
144 | 144 | |
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145 | 145 | kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-3.X |
146 | 146 | build directory: /home/name/build/kernel |
147 | 147 | |
148 | - To configure and build the kernel use: | |
148 | + To configure and build the kernel, use: | |
149 | 149 | cd /usr/src/linux-3.X |
150 | 150 | make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig |
151 | 151 | make O=/home/name/build/kernel |
152 | 152 | sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install |
153 | 153 | |
154 | - Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used then it must be | |
154 | + Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used, then it must be | |
155 | 155 | used for all invocations of make. |
156 | 156 | |
157 | 157 | CONFIGURING the kernel: |
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230 | 230 | possible to do "make install" if you have lilo installed to suit the |
231 | 231 | kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first. |
232 | 232 | |
233 | - To do the actual install you have to be root, but none of the normal | |
233 | + To do the actual install, you have to be root, but none of the normal | |
234 | 234 | build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain. |
235 | 235 | |
236 | 236 | - If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you |
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238 | 238 | |
239 | 239 | - Verbose kernel compile/build output: |
240 | 240 | |
241 | - Normally the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not | |
241 | + Normally, the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not | |
242 | 242 | totally silent). However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need |
243 | 243 | to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed. |
244 | 244 | For this, use "verbose" build mode. This is done by inserting |
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267 | 267 | - Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a |
268 | 268 | bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported. |
269 | 269 | |
270 | - If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO which | |
270 | + If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO, which | |
271 | 271 | uses the kernel image as specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The |
272 | 272 | kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or |
273 | 273 | /boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image |
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320 | 320 | incomprehensible to you, but it does contain information that may |
321 | 321 | help debugging the problem. The text above the dump is also |
322 | 322 | important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in |
323 | - the above example it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information | |
323 | + the above example, it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information | |
324 | 324 | on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt |
325 | 325 | |
326 | 326 | - If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump |
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328 | 328 | sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred). |
329 | 329 | This utility can be downloaded from |
330 | 330 | ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ . |
331 | - Alternately you can do the dump lookup by hand: | |
331 | + Alternately, you can do the dump lookup by hand: | |
332 | 332 | |
333 | 333 | - In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can |
334 | 334 | look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help |