On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > 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. Also, are you going to be analyizing the bugs in the stable trees, or the ones we just happen to fix? Note, that's not always the same thing :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
