Most of the trouble people appear to be having is finding out
which kernel they are actually running. The following
proposal makes it possible to identify the kernel build with
nearly 100% guarantee, without adding any (well, couple of
bytes perhaps) overhead.
Would it not be possible to generate an md5sum over the combined
$(ARCHIVES), $(FILESYSTEMS), $(DRIVERS) and $(LIBS) and put that
in init/version.c, and bang that md5sum somewhere under
/proc?
At the same time this sum can be prepended to config and
System.Map.
Or am I being silly here?
Cheers
Michiel
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