Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 11:09:57 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname() |
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:51:17PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > This patch (as1100) replaces the core-kernel function call to utsname() > in usb-storage with the UTS_RELEASE macro. It's used only for warning > about extra unusual_devs entries. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Why? With this change, if you change the version number, the file will have to be rebuilt. Without the change, the file will not need to be rebuilt, right?
I thought that was why this change was made a while ago, to prevent things from having to be rebuilt that didn't need to be.
thanks,
greg k-h
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