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    SubjectRe: What does tainting actually mean?
    On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Karim Yaghmour wrote:

    > The legal/moral implications of taint/binary-mods/etc. aside, I think it
    > may be worth putting some thought into coming up with a way to identify
    > which patches were applied to a kernel -- given the wide-spread use of this
    > method to add/remove/amend kernel functionality. Maybe there should be a
    > /proc/sys/kernel/patches file at runtime which would provide a list of
    > applied patches and some characteristics/description? When patches are

    Or maybe we could add a line to the top level Makefile to append something
    to the version number to indicate things like whether a kernel is a
    prerelease and whether/which extra patches have been added.

    We could call it something like "EXTRAVERSION"...

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