From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James.Bottomley@suse.de (James Bottomley) Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:16:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic In-Reply-To: <20110405154918.GA31337@suse.de> References: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <20110405154918.GA31337@suse.de> Message-ID: <1302027412.2924.7.camel@mulgrave.site> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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