From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751137AbWDJLLI (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:11:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751139AbWDJLLH (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:11:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13545 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751137AbWDJLLG (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:11:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:10:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: sam@ravnborg.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease Message-Id: <20060410031023.22082c28.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060410025851.641022a0.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060410015727.69b5c1f6.akpm@osdl.org> <20060410104250.GA24160@mars.ravnborg.org> <20060410025851.641022a0.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > > I stopped using `make kernelrelease' when it did something bad when used > from another machine across NFS. > > > > hm, it takes nearly five seconds, but it wasn't that - something actually > broke. But I forget what it was. I'll put it back and will wait for it > to reoccur. > Actually, I think it was a problem interacting with the weird things which `git bisect' does with .kernelrelease. bix:/usr/src/git26> git bisect start bix:/usr/src/git26> git bisect bad v2.6.15 bix:/usr/src/git26> git bisect good v2.6.14 Bisecting: 2705 revisions left to test after this bix:/usr/src/git26> cat .kernelrelease 2.6.16-rc2-g6bd0e10e bix:/usr/src/git26> make kernelrelease 2.6.14-gref: ref That's cute, but it wasn't that..