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From: Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-admin@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-admin] Making changes to a statically build driver
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:30:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903092130.56036.bangert@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090306141849.D4717CC2BB@mail.evildaystar.net>

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>                I made some changes to the e1000 kernel driver.  I then
> recompiled the kernel without any issue.  How can I tell if the change
> actually went through?  Again, this driver has been statically built
> into the kernel.  Is there a way to test that a change went through
> without have to setup a test environment?

the e1000 driver probably prints version info to dmesg that you could 
tamper with...

also, check uname - it includes a buildversion (#1) and builddate of the 
currently running kernel:
bangert@marsupilami ~ $ uname -a
Linux marsupilami 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP Tue Mar 3 17:14:06 CET 2009 i686 
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06 14:20 [gentoo-admin] Making changes to a statically build driver Two_Tone
2009-03-09 20:30 ` Thilo Bangert [this message]
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2009-03-05 23:16 Ezra Taylor

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