From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: tiacx - don't use UTS_RELEASE Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:25:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20060704022537.97f703b4.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1152004080.3109.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:50147 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751250AbWGDJZu (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 05:25:50 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <1152004080.3109.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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".