Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:13:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: How about a /proc/patches ? |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>Chris Fowler wrote: >> Is there anybody out there who has thought about creating a patch for the >> kernel that would create a file /proc/patches that would list in it all >> the patches applied to that kernel.
This is a waste of kernel memory. At least that data should be compressed and swapped out.
>Like in Henning's patch, patches are supposed to have one-line >description files in init/patches/. These lines are added to
So why not run cat init/patches/* instead of /proc/patches?
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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