On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 02:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:07:59 +0200
> Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > patch below removes the use of UTS_RELEASE from the tiacx driver; there
> > is absolutely no reason for a driver to print the kernel version or use
> > the UTS_RELEASE field; in addition this field changes all the time so
> > this causes spurious rebuilds..
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-04-usb/usb-storage-uname-in-pr-sc-unneeded-message.patch
>  did it too.
> 
> UTS_RELEASE doesn't change much.  It's "2.6.17".

no but the header that it's in changes all the time iirc, at least it
used to (one of those kbuild regenerated files)


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