How about a /proc/patches ?

Chris Fowler (chrisf@Sandwich.iscorltd.co.za)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:52:10 +0200 (GMT+0200)

Is there anybody out there who has thought about creating a patch for the
kernel that would create a file /proc/patches that would list in it all
the patches applied to that kernel.
For example if I did a cat /proc/patches the output would be something
like :

20-penguin-boot-logo
fat32_joliet_nls_patch-0.2.0
proc-patch

This would help people like me to find out what patches are compiled in a
specific kernel so that they can reapply them when they upgrade the kernel.
If there was a simple way to modify the existing patches such as inserting a
line such as

register_patch('Patch name description');

somewhere in the patch would add the info to /proc/patches it would be easy
to change all the patches I have lying around. Does anybody have any
comments on this idea? I would attempt it myself but unfortunately my
programming experience is more in the COBOL area.

Thanks
Chris Fowler
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