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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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