Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:13:29 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] show patch names |
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Hi!
> This four-line patch provides a means for listing what patches have been > built into a kernel. This will help track non-standard kernel versions, > such as those released by Redhat, or Alan's ac series, etc. more easily. > > With this patch in place, each new patch can include a file of the form > "patchname.[identifier]" in the top level source directory and > [identifier] will then be added to the kernel version string. For > instance, Alan's ac patches could include a file named patchdesc.ac2 > (containing a change log, perhaps), and the resulting kernel would be > identified as 2.2.0-pre6+ac2, both at boot and by uname. > > This may prove especially useful for tracking problems with kernels built > by distribution packagers and problems reported by automated tools.
I just want to second this. I think it is very usefull to list patches: we are approaching stable series and there are lots of patches for stable series.
Perhaps searching only Documentation/ tree would be sufficient? (After all, description of patch is just form of documentation, don't you think?)
Pavel
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