Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Capricelli <> | 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.
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