Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:44:19 -0500 | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | [PATCH] automate patch names in kernel versions |
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Perhaps times have changed enough that I can revive this idea from a few years ago:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=patchname+oxymoron&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=fa.jif8l5v.1b049jd%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1
<quote year=1999> 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. </quote>
The patch now appends patches as -name rather than +name to avoid issues that might exist with packaging tools and scripts.
diff -urN -x genksyms -x '*.ver' -x '.patch*' -x '*.orig' orig/Makefile patched/Makefile --- orig/Makefile 2003-07-29 13:31:50.000000000 -0500 +++ patched/Makefile 2003-07-29 15:25:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ # descending is started. They are now explicitly listed as the # prepare rule. -KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) +PATCHES=$(shell find -maxdepth 1 -name 'patchdesc.*[^~]' -printf '+%f' | \ + sed -e 's/+patchdesc\./-/g') +KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(PATCHES) + # SUBARCH tells the usermode build what the underlying arch is. That is set # first, and if a usermode build is happening, the "ARCH=um" on the command @@ -504,7 +507,7 @@ ) endef -include/linux/version.h: Makefile +include/linux/version.h: Makefile patchdesc.* $(call filechk,version.h) # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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