Hello everyone, Every now and then I see a tree of kernel sources, contributed in good faith and compliance with the GPL, by some hardware vendor, or even worse, a hardware distributor, without any explanation of the changes made, or even which official tree is it based on.
Usually, some hunting reveals that they branched off the tree maintained by the SoC manufacturer, and few diffs later, the investigative part is over. It had happened for me again, few days ago. I decided to implement a more automated solution, and I would like to hear your feedback, and whether (which) kernel trees are notable enough as points of divergence, to include in this tool. Before you ask - most of these 'unidentified' sources are lacking git metadata. Before you ask again - make kernelversion can sometimes reveal what it is, but only for direct offspring of official trees. Enough of the introduction, if it's something that you find useful, please head to: http://qdot.me/kids Cheers! Tomasz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
