From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:16:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302027412.2924.7.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110405154918.GA31337@suse.de>
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 08:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:58:47PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this series makes it possible to build bit-identical kernel image and
> > modules from identical sources. Of course the build is already
> > deterministic in terms of behavior of the code, but the various
> > timestamps embedded in the object files make it hard to compare two
> > builds, for instance to verify that a makefile cleanup didn't
> > accidentally change something. A prime example is /proc/config.gz, which
> > has both a timestamp in the gzip header and a timestamp in the payload
> > data. With this series applied, a script like this will produce
> > identical kernels each time:
>
> Very nice stuff. Do you want to take the individual patches through one
> of your trees, or do you mind if the subsystem maintainers take them
> through theirs?
I'm happy for this to go through a single tree.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-05 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-05 14:58 [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic Michal Marek
2011-04-05 14:58 ` [PATCH 12/34] isdn/diva: Drop __TIME__ usage Michal Marek
2011-04-05 15:10 ` Armin Schindler
2011-04-05 15:37 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-05 16:07 ` Armin Schindler
2011-04-05 20:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-04-05 19:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-04-06 8:06 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-25 20:38 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-26 8:15 ` Armin Schindler
2011-05-26 8:29 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-05 14:59 ` [PATCH 15/34] baycom: " Michal Marek
[not found] ` <1302015780.4124.53.camel@xbox360.hq.axsem.com>
2011-05-25 15:23 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-05 14:59 ` [PATCH 17/34] hdlcdrv: " Michal Marek
2011-04-19 10:17 ` walter harms
2011-04-19 10:56 ` Michal Marek
[not found] ` <1302015790.4124.54.camel@xbox360.hq.axsem.com>
2011-05-25 15:24 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-05 14:59 ` [PATCH 18/34] wan/pc300: " Michal Marek
2011-05-25 20:43 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-25 20:44 ` David Miller
2011-04-05 14:59 ` [PATCH 19/34] rt2x00: " Michal Marek
2011-04-05 15:28 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2011-04-05 18:37 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2011-04-05 14:59 ` [PATCH 28/34] atm: " Michal Marek
2011-05-25 20:49 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-25 21:39 ` David Miller
2011-04-05 14:59 ` [PATCH 29/34] tipc: " Michal Marek
2011-04-05 22:25 ` Paul Gortmaker
2011-04-05 15:49 ` [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic Greg KH
2011-04-05 18:16 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2011-04-05 18:29 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-04-05 18:44 ` Greg KH
2011-04-05 19:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-06 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-06 9:07 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-06 9:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-06 9:23 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-06 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
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