Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2005 00:56:57 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/module.c has something to hide. (whitespace cleanup) |
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:07:55PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > >On Tue, 10 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >>Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote: > >> > >>>[...] > >>>Ohh, and I'd be submitting all the patches to you Andrew, not individual > >>>maintainers/authors.. > >> > >>That should be OK - you can test that the .o files have the same `size' > >>output before-and-after. > >> > >>[...] > > > >Ok, will do. > > Just a small sugestion: do a sha (or md5sum, or whatever hash function > you prefer) to vmlinux before and after applying the patches. > > If all is well, it shouldn't change (since this is just whitespace > cleanup), and it is a little more robust than just checking the size.
That's wrong.
vmlinux contains the date of the compilation.
> Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
cu Adrian
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