From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>,
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 15:20:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150411132023.GA22172@opentech.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150411151523.1756ec20@lwn.net>
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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?
>
I thought of that but it would be inconsistent as all other descriptions
here are only the function not the use. I did not find a file where
the problem of identical rebuild would really fit.
thx!
hofrat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-11 13:20 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
2015-04-11 13:20 ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]
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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