Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964939AbXAJQx5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:53:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964941AbXAJQx4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:53:56 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:39473 "EHLO dvhart.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964939AbXAJQx4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:53:56 -0500 Message-ID: <45A519C8.5000407@mbligh.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:52:24 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070104) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated References: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109170550.AFEF460C343@tzec.mtu.ru> <20070109214421.281ff564.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109133121.194f3261.akpm@osdl.org> <20070109152534.ebfa5aa8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20070109152534.ebfa5aa8.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 29 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST) > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: >>>> This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to >>>> make developers angry pretty quickly. >>> That might motivate them to fix it ;) >> Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count entirely? > > I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install > that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing `uname -a' > with $TOPDIR/.version. Yup, we need to do the same thing in automated testing. Especially when you're doing lilo -R, and don't know if you ended up fscking or panicing during attempted reboot to new kernel. Better would be a checksum of the vmlinux vs the running kernel text, but that seems to be impossible due to code rewriting. Could we embed a checksum in a little /proc file for this? M. - 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/