Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161054AbXBRCEs (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:04:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161048AbXBRCEs (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:04:48 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:57660 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161054AbXBRCEr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:04:47 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:04:42 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Olaf Hering cc: Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp In-Reply-To: <20070216215213.GA10732@aepfle.de> Message-ID: References: <20070216215213.GA10732@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 19 Hi, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: > Pass a timestamp to kbuild via an enviroment variable. > > TZ=UTC BUILD_TIMESTAMP=2007-01-01 make -kj O=../O vmlinux > > This can be used when the kernel source is in a SCM and uname -v > is supposed to give the commit date and not the package build time. Is this really necessary? I don't really see the point of this. bye, Roman - 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/