Re: getting the running patch level


On Aug 10, 2012, at 09:40 , Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> =
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Roberto <robertot@redix.it> wrote:
>>=20
>> So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update =
process, it
>> is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level.
>=20
> Correct.
>=20
> This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and
> simple solution. There is a simple solution if we just update the
> kernel always, but that's a hack IMO.
>=20
> While the problem seems rather simple, there are many corner cases
> making it hard to solve. It should be solved so people can get this
> information, personally I just haven't had the time to work on it.

	Split off a version.ko and update that with each patch?

--=20
Chris BeHanna
chris@behanna.org=
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