From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: tiacx - don't use UTS_RELEASE Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:27:27 +0200 Message-ID: <1152005247.3109.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1152004080.3109.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060704022537.97f703b4.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:26346 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751256AbWGDJ13 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 05:27:29 -0400 To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060704022537.97f703b4.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 02:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:07:59 +0200 > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > patch below removes the use of UTS_RELEASE from the tiacx driver; there > > is absolutely no reason for a driver to print the kernel version or use > > the UTS_RELEASE field; in addition this field changes all the time so > > this causes spurious rebuilds.. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-04-usb/usb-storage-uname-in-pr-sc-unneeded-message.patch did it too. > > UTS_RELEASE doesn't change much. It's "2.6.17". no but the header that it's in changes all the time iirc, at least it used to (one of those kbuild regenerated files)