From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com ([209.85.221.65]:44418 "EHLO mail-wr1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726876AbgATS3F (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:29:05 -0500 Received: by mail-wr1-f65.google.com with SMTP id q10so460722wrm.11 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:29:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:28:46 +0000 From: Steve McIntyre Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add device tree build information Message-ID: <20200120182837.GO3697@linaro.org> References: <20200113181625.3130-1-alexandre.torgue@st.com> <233e0a5f-d38f-908c-5ca7-66ee87d0fcae@st.com> <7cfd0bc0-13fd-98ea-9bfd-6cfbbfd77b6d@gmail.com> <220e3aea-b273-417a-69c9-059236c888af@st.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Frank Rowand Cc: Alexandre Torgue , robh+dt@kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, sjg@chromium.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org Hi Frank! Thanks for the link back to the previous discussion, it's very helpful. On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:14:22AM -0600, Frank Rowand wrote: >On 1/20/20 4:56 AM, Alexandre Torgue wrote: ... >> and the date). There are no "dtb versions", and "absolute/relative" >> path which created concerns. One remaining concern is "reproducible > >Here is an example of the info from one of my builds: > > From Linux 5.5.0-rc2-dirty by frowand the Mon Jan 20 09:50:58 CST 2020. > >The information 'Linux 5.5.0-rc2-dirty' is precisely what was most objected >to in my proposal. ACK. :-( I'm surprised to see so much push-back on what looks like a simple piece of information here. I've had users *specifically* asking for this kind of identification so that they can verify the version of the DTB they're using at runtime. Right now it can be a guessing game, which does not help people trying to debug problems. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs