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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:05:45 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:55:05PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> I think we should start recording CFLAGS the kernel has been compiled with 
> anyway; doesn't hurt and might come handy when debugging.
> 
> /proc/version is probably not the best place ... /proc/cflags?

Yap, I guess I can find that string with hexdump on the kernel binary too :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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