Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:31:15 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Kernel .patches support |
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:03:17PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > On Friday 24 June 2005 09:36, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:58:27PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > every time I apply a patch to my kernel tree I (or my scripts) make an > > > > > > echo $PATCHNAME $PATCHVERSION >> .patches > > > > > > This patch makes the file accessible via /proc/patches.gz. I think this > > > can be handy if you want to know what patches you (or your distributor) > > > applied to your running kernel... > > >... > > > Let me know what you think. > > > > To be honest, I'm not a fan of it. > > > > If e.g. looking at a Debian kernel source that has 289 different patches > > with names like tty-locking-fixes7 applied, you'll see that this often > > won't give you much valuable information. > > You can search Debian lists, archives, ... for "tty-locking-fixes7". After > that you probably know what the fix is good for.
The _only_ Google hit for "tty-locking-fixes7" isn't very helpful.
I could simply download the source package for the kernel...
> On the other hand if there is a security fix in a Debian list you can check if > your kernel is patched by running "zcat /proc/patches.gz | grep > security-fix-foo-bar".
"zless /usr/share/doc/<pkgname>/Debian.src.changelog.gz" already gives you the same information plus information about the contents of the patches including CAN references and bug numbers.
> > You'd need an uniform naming convention for patches across > > distributions, and I don't think such things are worth the effort. > > If a distribution has a naming convention for itself this patch can already be > useful I think. Even without it can be.
If you are building your own kernel, you have to manually check that you don't forget to add every patch you apply to .patches .
In a distribution, the information is already present at better places.
> Christian
cu Adrian
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