Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752842AbaFBSqn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:46:43 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:48412 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751949AbaFBSqm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:46:42 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.98,958,1392192000"; d="scan'208";a="541376251" Message-ID: <538CC567.2060305@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:41:43 -0700 From: eric ernst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap , Josh Boyer CC: Paul Gortmaker , Andrew Morton , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , mark.gross@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add kernel parameter for kernel version References: <1401219641-79301-1-git-send-email-eric.ernst@linux.intel.com> <5384F034.8030303@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <5384F034.8030303@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14-05-27 01:06 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 05/27/2014 12:48 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:40 PM, wrote: >>> From: Eric Ernst >>> >>> Create a kernel cmdline parameter, "version_addendum", which can be >>> used to add text to the kernel version that is reported from >>> /proc/version. >> Why? >> >> What is the intended purpose of this and why would someone want to use it? > and if the patch were to continue to live, it needs a Documentation addition > to kernel-parameters.txt. > Randy - ACK. Josh - we have a need to keep a single product binary (kernel) across multiple android devices. A subset of these platforms are looking for extra versioning information appended to it, accessible via /proc/version. Rather than build multiple otherwise identical kernels with only this extended versioning as differentiation, we are looking to make this a command line parameter. Understandable if there isn't enough value-add for the community in this patch, but I figured I'd give the patch a shot, as we need this functionality locally. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/