On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:39:39PM +0000, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > Hi ! > > For a given patch I would like to find out if it impacts a > given configuration or not. Now of course one could compile the > kernel for the configuration prior to the patch, then apply the > patch and recompile to find out if there is an impact but I would > be looking for some smarter solution. Checking files only > unfortunately will not do it, due to ifdefs and friends so make > would detect a change and recompile even if the affeted code > area is actualy dropped by the preprocessor. > > What Im trying to do is find out is, how many of the e.g. stable > fixes of 4.4-4.4.14 would have impacted a given configuration - the > whole exercise is intended for some statistical analysis of bugs > in linux-stable. Good question. Such a good one that I know of a number of people working on this very topic as part of a PhD research project, it's not a "trivial" thing to deduce automatically. good luck! gre gk-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
