Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to
make developers angry pretty quickly.
That might motivate them to fix it ;)
Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count entirely?
I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install
that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing `uname -a'
with $TOPDIR/.version.
Yup, we need to do the same thing in automated testing. Especially when
you're doing lilo -R, and don't know if you ended up fscking or panicing
during attempted reboot to new kernel.
Better would be a checksum of the vmlinux vs the running kernel text,
but that seems to be impossible due to code rewriting. Could we embed
a checksum in a little /proc file for this?
M.
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