Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:20:57 +0100
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai@germaschewski.name>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: .version keeps being updated
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Hi all,

Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with
an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any
change done to the code or configuration or not. This increases the
build time quite a bit.

I've tracked it down to include/linux/compile.h always being updated,
and this is because .version is updated. I couldn't find what is
causing .version to be updated each time though. Can anybody help
there? Was this change made on purpose or is this a bug which we should
fix?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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