Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:15:23 +0200
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION
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On Sun,  5 Apr 2015 08:44:28 +0200
Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> wrote:

> KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION is currently not documented but it is
> needed when rebuilding a kernel that should result in the identical
> binary. This is a brief documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION.

Can we add something like the above to the document itself so that
readers have an idea of why they might want to tweak this?

Either way, I can take it in the docs tree if that's best..Michal?

Thanks,

jon
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