Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2005 13:16:53 +0100 | | From | Paulo Marques <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/module.c has something to hide. (whitespace cleanup) |
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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?
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