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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:15:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150411151523.1756ec20@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428216268-3545-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>

On Sun,  5 Apr 2015 08:44:28 +0200
Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> wrote:

> KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION is currently not documented but it is
> needed when rebuilding a kernel that should result in the identical
> binary. This is a brief documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION.

Can we add something like the above to the document itself so that
readers have an idea of why they might want to tweak this?

Either way, I can take it in the docs tree if that's best..Michal?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-11 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-05  6:44 [PATCH] kbuild: add documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-11 13:15 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2015-04-11 13:20   ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-11 19:54     ` Michal Marek
2015-04-12  4:08       ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-13 15:06         ` Michal Marek
2015-04-16  7:22           ` Nicholas Mc Guire

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