[PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic

[James.Bottomley@suse.de (James Bottomley)]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 08:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:58:47PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this series makes it possible to build bit-identical kernel image and
> > modules from identical sources. Of course the build is already
> > deterministic in terms of behavior of the code, but the various
> > timestamps embedded in the object files make it hard to compare two
> > builds, for instance to verify that a makefile cleanup didn't
> > accidentally change something. A prime example is /proc/config.gz, which
> > has both a timestamp in the gzip header and a timestamp in the payload
> > data. With this series applied, a script like this will produce
> > identical kernels each time:
> 
> Very nice stuff.  Do you want to take the individual patches through one
> of your trees, or do you mind if the subsystem maintainers take them
> through theirs?

I'm happy for this to go through a single tree.

James