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docs: Add a warning to applying-patches.rst

This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore.  In the
absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Jonathan Corbet 9 лет назад
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+.. note::
+
+   This document is obsolete.  In most cases, rather than using ``patch``
+   manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead.
 
 A frequently asked question on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is how to apply
 a patch to the kernel or, more specifically, what base kernel a patch for