From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752191Ab0CEM5j (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:57:39 -0500 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:60829 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751590Ab0CEM5h (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:57:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:57:31 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Mike Galbraith Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, elendil@planet.nl, cloos@jhcloos.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] v3 kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM Message-ID: <20100305125730.GA6764@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20100305025435.GA6836@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1267769448.6392.17.camel@marge.simson.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1267769448.6392.17.camel@marge.simson.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:10:48AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 18:54 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > This patch appends the localversion string to the Linux kernel version. > > For example, in a git tree with uncommitted changes, the .config file > > might start as follows (but with leading hash marks): > > > > Automatically generated make config: don't edit > > Linux kernel version: 2.6.33-01836-g90a6501-dirty > > Mon Mar 1 17:05:59 2010 > > > > The "-01836-g90a6501-dirty" string is added by this patch. > > I really like this. This gives me the advantages of non-volatile build > info without the mess that makes if it's appended to file names/paths. Glad you like it! ;-) > -Mike > > Eventually someone will make bisect stop stepping on random kernels, and > generally making a mess, and life will be grand ;-) Heck, I don't even know how bisect deals with merges. ;-) Thanx, Paul