From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754240Ab0CEUbU (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:31:20 -0500 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml104.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.8]:50377 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML104.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752817Ab0CEUbT (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:31:19 -0500 From: Frans Pop To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] v3 kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:31:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 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 References: <20100305025435.GA6836@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <201003051818.10486.elendil@planet.nl> <20100305201051.GG6764@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20100305201051.GG6764@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201003052131.12199.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Mar 2010 20:31:13.0087 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC3EC4F0:01CABCA2] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Dropping cloos as that address is bouncing my mails.) On Friday 05 March 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > s/you're over-designing this/you are freaking paranoid/ Whatever makes you happy :-) > With that change, I plead guilty to charges as read. But again, I am > worried about the case where one person generates the .config file > and someone else is reading it. Not sure that's very relevant. A person reading it will still get the same oldfashioned basic info as when a build is done from a tree that's not under an SCM. And he won't really be in a position where he can fix the errors anyway.