On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:17, Marty Leisner wrote: > I always want to know WHAT I'm running (or people I'm working with > are running) rather than "guessing" ("do you have the most current > patch" "I think so") > > I've been a proponent of capturing .config information SOMEPLACE where > you can look at it at runtime...(it took a while but its there now). > > > In /proc/patches there would be a series of comments (perhaps including > file, date and time) of various patches you want to monitor.
I prepared such a patch [0] some time ago. It makes the file .patches in kernel source tree available via /proc/patches.gz. Read the discussion on lkml [1] to get more information. It still appies to actual kernels. [0] http://www.earthworm.de/download/linux/patches.patch [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/68497374c5870617/6cfc8eed92e9b7ff -- Regards, Christian
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