On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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)
Yesterday I pushed a change that splitted include/linux/version.h in two
parts.
Now include/linux/version.h only contains:
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132625
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
And the file wil only be regenerated when the file-content actually
changes.
And UTS_RELEASE has moved to include/linux/utsrelease.h which contains:
#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.17-g05668381-dirty"
This is the file that will change often - at least for git users.
But with the patch only users of UTS_RELEASE will be rebuild which is
far less than users of version.h.
Sam
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