From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:49084 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753843AbbDKNPc (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:15:32 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:15:23 +0200 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION Message-ID: <20150411151523.1756ec20@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1428216268-3545-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> References: <1428216268-3545-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Nicholas Mc Guire Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 08:44:28 +0200 Nicholas Mc Guire 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