I noticed that there are quite a lot of patches out there. I know - there
is cvs and everything, but application of several patches on top of a
vanilla kernel makes everything totally confusing to most "not-so-
well-informed-what-is-going-on".
Therefor I'm thinking about a patch addon routine for vanilla kernels.
Base idea is: every wildely distributed patch should register (very
simple) to a text file in source code, so you could cat this file and
see which patches are installed (or this is a vanilla). I know there is
an "extra version", but this line is
a) too short for this purpose
and
b) people does not like this, as you must do it by hand.
I have several more ideas, but first I want to hear whether you think
that this idea is good (or not). Perhaps someone else has already
got this idea or is already working on this. If so, please let me know,
as I do not want to do "double-work".
Tell me, what you think!
73
Nico
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