Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Posted Feb 28, 2011 22:18 UTC (Mon) by PaulWay (guest, #45600)Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
So how long until someone writes a tool to read the source blob and 'decompose' it into a bunch of patches based on the kernel git tree (and possibly RH's git tree)? Diff the code against the stock kernel, find sections of lines that have changed, see if those are in a git commit somewhere (a simple look at which files had changed in that commit would narrow it down substantially). Or take a list of git commits and find them in the source tree and decompose them into patches - it all depends on which is the larger list of changes, I suppose.
It's going to be interesting to see how RH spins this, especially if it's now public knowledge that most of their developers are unhappy with it.
Have fun,
Paul
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