Den 14/11/2010 kl. 21.32 skrev Dimitry Andric: > On 2010-11-14 21:22, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> I'm curious as to why this might be useful? Would the mtime of the >> file not be be sufficient? I can only think of debugging purposes, but >> apart from the timestamp, two kernels with the same rev. would be >> bitwise identical, > > This does not have to be the case. For example, if you have have local > modifications, or use different settings in make.conf or src.conf.
In this case the timestamp + rev. is not sufficient to reproduce the kernel anyway. You'd need to store externally the non-standard contents of conf files, local diffs etc. on all your non-standard builds. You could do all sorts of fun stuff, even fool the rev. number or timestamp if you wanted. I'm just saying that for the standard user on a standard GENERIC kernel (and world for that matter) - the revision number should be sufficient for e.g. filing a PR. If you need the timestamp, there's the mtime. Erik
