Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:20:23 +0200 | From | Nicholas Mc Guire <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION |
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On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 08:44:28 +0200 > Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> wrote: > > > KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION is currently not documented but it is > > needed when rebuilding a kernel that should result in the identical > > binary. This is a brief documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION. > > Can we add something like the above to the document itself so that > readers have an idea of why they might want to tweak this? > > Either way, I can take it in the docs tree if that's best..Michal? > I thought of that but it would be inconsistent as all other descriptions here are only the function not the use. I did not find a file where the problem of identical rebuild would really fit.
thx! hofrat
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