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From: Thomas Capricelli <tcaprice@logatique.fr>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:26:37 +0100
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> What is even harder to find out given a binary kernel is which patches (if
> any) have been applied to it. What if there was one file (say,
> /usr/src/linux/patches) to which each (well-behaved) patch would append a
> line or two (patch name, version, author, url), and then you could later
> extract that information the same way you extract .config?

	I second that. It would be great to have a way of knowing what's different 
from vanillia kernel. though:

	* we can't expect each patch to do the 'magic thing'. But at least, those 
big patches lying around could follow this kind of rule. I don't care about 
typos patches, but It would be great to know that (for ex.) the rmap patch is 
there or not.

	* having /usr/src/linux/patches is not practical : it will be a big mess wrt 
to conflict

	The reason why I have not proposed something already is that I have no clue 
how to achieve this purpose. But I still would like to have a way to know 
which big patches have been in my kernel.


sorry,
Thomas
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