Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:51:45 +1200 (NZST) | From | Keith Duthie <> | Subject | Re: What does tainting actually mean? |
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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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