Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:20:23 +0200
From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>, 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 Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> 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?
>
I thought of that but it would be inconsistent as all other descriptions
here are only the function not the use. I did not find a file where 
the problem of identical rebuild would really fit.

thx!
hofrat 
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