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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel/module.c has something to hide. (whitespace cleanup)
Paulo Marques wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:07:55PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> 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.
>
> You're right, I forgot about that...
>
> Removing UTS_VERSION from init/version.c would make this work, or are
> there other places where this might be a problem?

Ok, I've just tested this.

At least with my config, if I remove both instances of UTS_VERSION from
init/version.c, the resulting vmlinux files are exactly identical with
the same sha1sum.

So maybe Jesper can use this to make *really* sure that there are no
actual changes with the patches, just whitespace changes.

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