From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue with upgrade path from include/linux/version.h to uapi
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:05:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29752.1366394731@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130419173434.GA15612@Krystal>
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> This leads to very unfortunate consequences for any user relying on
> version.h to expose the kernel version accurately, since the old "stale"
> kernel version will be seen by the build.
>
> Sadly, make clean does not even take care of removing this stale file.
I wonder if a simple approach would work - just add:
$(shell rm include/linux/version.h)
to an appropriate header, perhaps the top-level Makefile.
Failing that, it might be worth adding it to the make-clean list.
David
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2013-04-19 17:34 Issue with upgrade path from include/linux/version.h to uapi Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-04-19 18:05 ` David Howells [this message]
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