From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wm1-f44.google.com (mail-wm1-f44.google.com [209.85.128.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F182F2550D5 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.128.44 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781110843; cv=none; b=q/ov7/qurT9ZPZastxFzThoZcz7vGt10HUc+IZJ8PpAB/JsLNtukWpoWu8d2AR0hlbU0/2oYruyjr2rNZgUj+Fti+qwxmmHT63u2Uun4ZqkZCtfglY6sC9Bp78e9Xd5hIgZOf8+rlH+VdH4NwtfYLcD70JFaHLT+YJG6upw8PFk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781110843; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Hit/Mlk9D4kEMW35JlzezH50DQnrNYzjvS1wHLUgqto=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ZdnOUG1LhlPnahzxAe50moAULWSqq8a5OoVQYN0BN9G2z2dwtx6vdMpbkKcJRTsdDdzXb75+T1yGgsNyx43Pck2ONlVhO5uUtU+V6/xSPF0ynetktZA4z8py7Ls5WQJwG8ckGx+TgkdohcDBJ3mBZc8XByjCUJ1cn2FvYbMr6ok= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=baylibre.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=baylibre.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=baylibre.com header.i=@baylibre.com header.b=b0M6j99y; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.128.44 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=baylibre.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=baylibre.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=baylibre.com header.i=@baylibre.com header.b="b0M6j99y" Received: by mail-wm1-f44.google.com with SMTP id 5b1f17b1804b1-490bc6a7958so631375e9.1 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=baylibre.com; s=google; t=1781110840; x=1781715640; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Hit/Mlk9D4kEMW35JlzezH50DQnrNYzjvS1wHLUgqto=; b=b0M6j99yII+kLlHwwrA+gAywLOUZuib0k/6S65Er50h91XG1H699IA3E04gvhj7Rhy 8AoBR19NIMtoVZn1q8HpE9G9UYU4m7TUBmGvGiC4xViHz/pb+5K2nzfEDRxvOulw3bT0 Ro2DMOevZWXHdPqVrLBSXSMwolkj7nisvFHzymbL+VOdF0J3GciuW73ous6+btNyOcKZ DkmLu/QTIVaaIUYru96r1hDOzhwwPohEoTXRiVyRAB6jygjBFzBkN17Egkp09s2Y0HDX Mc/pJU7L1onyrWNyojHZCYMg53MUYKMjl1HOVjpDsTs4zEWGdDTnRO1XmLnMpGh8PYkV Mu5g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20251104; t=1781110840; x=1781715640; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-gg:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Hit/Mlk9D4kEMW35JlzezH50DQnrNYzjvS1wHLUgqto=; b=rt1TUFzGWIUOT5fcCO+y+Ozzpe/Zbot6FYofGb2b2wYdpLwRIDcD6Bmas8Y8BDCW/F jwmQYxdBKqjRt2jGO+HNkx9ncPJ7ynaAc9cuwNQVOIuIYKYQj1lGL8BBDeOpNME7hxhs JD+C24NKtpyJKvhpykNos6xhXOfaS1qWyaU3sFDg+gtsXg1rnxdUzOLJIRFqcgMeLqkJ rZwbGRJm2zd1yPhb07Cs2jNhCDQZQDjy8Mm1KdXK9i3s/DwWUUC8zepQOOXeHr7wTyen pkS2hBWGpearm+/8iAv2PF/5OXdZ2CubqWRt9P0m1K9mNY9YyWVkSTr4fQ3IPNM+P+h9 SX2g== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AFNElJ+y136AhJyo6HF7sC+n8Q6f/VZFmcDT44xA3qchDult0W9WuY5fZEjBG2ZPtMH3zofGCVxklRdTVIf+2oQ=@vger.kernel.org X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yx/kHrQKDtufaqpdHUaJeUxGBpGSYsCOF1S01ZCqaWeDKd4C9dO EBUtpc5mbeFsxZ189nJoeHL/rBnQPKZwlB5M6+rD3l+g3veHjXnAyAG/2gqOkxltlVM= X-Gm-Gg: Acq92OEckZWdewII/HwcYL+V5Jz5bzb0USlcvewpkfjtk+xP8eBCQpioQkbAZf1v+Ep U9tEVj1Hlw+5ZM2/D5/0GY4b722LpqHyZXvCsthW1mQZZictlNuhTIoBqg1UFlnSC7wvX3mDfyC sy1UAK38snhyJh8DPATqE7eMMXIXgF3B7vn/VmtR7LfFSd3D8BnZFbE1CiFUN0R9544i+qyZ6Jt g0ngbXNCoi6EBHni56XXQa3vTsCZ2jIOqb5vKN1Vnjxr7IyIqElJw+kbso7Y/gm0DWsQM4yQnC1 aIw8NQd0SZQ77AUh+lRYeOlaquDRlUziVcPfXtI+0PtvN5E+vZQLBhVarTgjGzc/Qr18UTZe+Qm viA7T9p/7lapR0uuSN7hjiNgt2YsWY+OEjBY6vPiTkMnb4mnLCTrvJnsNoI59re6USg2cqMd0jT c82RAZTJMqwM7fOBg/Uk8TYxP7xzQc4znAxwOfL8o0rxmo0HhBefejcb1vksmAksiLCeQB7pegp /q1Tlpv4xP9rBzDUJqINakLfg== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:6388:b0:48a:53cb:8604 with SMTP id 5b1f17b1804b1-490c2d1412emr330389635e9.14.1781110838915; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (p200300f65f47db046aec8c3a4b621e71.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:f6:5f47:db04:6aec:8c3a:4b62:1e71]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-490e2aceef4sm1699175e9.4.2026.06.10.10.00.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:00:35 +0200 From: Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig_=28The_Capable_Hub=29?= To: Zack Rusin , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Markus Schneider-Pargmann , Broadcom internal kernel review list , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Don't use UTS_RELEASE directly Message-ID: References: <20260504073422.1130008-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tqzyaztcmdnpyqs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260504073422.1130008-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com> --tqzyaztcmdnpyqs2 Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Don't use UTS_RELEASE directly MIME-Version: 1.0 Hello, On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 09:34:20AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig (The Capable H= ub) wrote: > UTS_RELEASE evaluates to a static string and changes quite easily (e.g. > uncommitted changes in the source tree or new commits). So when checking > if a patch introduces changes to the resulting binary each usage of > UTS_RELEASE is source of annoyance. >=20 > Instead of using UTS_RELEASE directly use init_utsname()->release which > evaluates to the same string but with that a change of UTS_RELEASE > doesn't affect vmwgfx_drv.o. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig (The Capable Hub) > --- > Hello, >=20 > an alternative way to address this is to drop the kernel version string > completely. But I'm not sure how redundant this really is so I chose the > init_utsname() approach. any feedback on this patch? Ideally something like "I applied it for 7.2-rc1, thanks!" :-D Best regards Uwe --tqzyaztcmdnpyqs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEP4GsaTp6HlmJrf7Tj4D7WH0S/k4FAmopmDEACgkQj4D7WH0S /k6BawgAkHk3FrAgUubLJrLmiTpgHkyYXquXl70Cy1iTCMpS6yowo0bz9x0MEdQf aR6EKIefC0Cr+R/pqLpfnDeitQxlppPIOt4iaIgAxFHkkJVJd6FwkXG1dkK93ZPZ GWLODUjFrTYyvZadkrOguSNQ9Hxsyp5Pg+VVpaQJ9RsIuxmhZ0Ig9LsjifWLqXEx PCPNll9bPT0TwD6GRpqqAwAcI3K2T1aPGwWj3cyxVHM/O1LDvGIl198ZezYngr6H 9LHQRYMYch572gDYibTUBDlrIha6Df/o0FLRKbksfjoYoH2Mg0Dqy+0j2y0mhZc7 YqirjZrtTWlpAJj8wJjrBBo+jgD0sQ== =kXpp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tqzyaztcmdnpyqs2--