From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@suse.de (Greg KH) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:49:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic In-Reply-To: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> References: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> Message-ID: <20110405154918.GA31337@suse.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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? thanks, greg k-h