From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Fink Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building iwl3945 without iwl4965. Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:46:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20080430004605.4775469a.billfink@mindspring.com> References: <1209521679.2827.23.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <20080429.191754.29710117.davem@davemloft.net> <1209522667.2827.26.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <20080429.193253.188598222.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: yi.zhu@intel.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, jason@acm.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.70]:50787 "EHLO elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755537AbYD3EqJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:46:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080429.193253.188598222.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Zhu Yi > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:31:07 +0800 > > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:17 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > The build number increments every time you make. > > > > > > That's where the "#nn" in the uname output comes from. > > > > Well, if nothing is changed, why it tries to recompile the image? IIRC, > > we don't have this problem in early kernels. > > Something did change, the build number in the header file. It doesn't do it in 2.6.22: [root@lang2 linux-2.6.22.9-foo]# pwd /home/extra/usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.22.9-foo [root@lang2 linux-2.6.22.9-foo]# strings - vmlinux | grep 'Linux vers' Linux version 2.6.22.9-mf1 (root@lang2.eiger.nasa.atd.net) (gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)) #4 SMP Wed Apr 30 00:37:52 EDT 2008 [root@lang2 linux-2.6.22.9-foo]# make CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h MODPOST vmlinux Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#4) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1605 modules [root@lang2 linux-2.6.22.9-foo]# strings - vmlinux | grep 'Linux vers' Linux version 2.6.22.9-mf1 (root@lang2.eiger.nasa.atd.net) (gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)) #4 SMP Wed Apr 30 00:37:52 EDT 2008 This is as it should be I would think. -Bill