how to find kernel patch applied on existing build kernel

[Rami Rosen]

Hi, Vipul

If you want to know to which kernel release is a specified patch
related, you  can do it by git "describe --contains":

git describe --contains e605b36575e896edd8161534550c9ea021b03bc0

v3.13-rc2~6^2

Regards,
Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alexandru Juncu <alexj at rosedu.org> wrote:
> On 22 December 2013 06:56, Vipul Jain <vipulsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I would like to find out if any particular build kernel has a particular
>> patch applied to that kernel how to go about it?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vipul.
>
>
>
> Hello!
>
> You can do a git log on the kernel's repo and see when it was applied.
> Or do a git blame if you need a particular line of a file.
>
> If you want to match it to a release, track the tags in the repo.
>
> You can use the webinterface:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/
>
> Just remember that because of the distributed nature of git and the
> kernel's development model, a particular patch is merged in many trees
> before reaching the de facto main linux repo (Linus' repo).
>
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