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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: defconfig: Set CONFIG_LOCALVERSION in multi v4t/v5/v7 defconfigs
Hi Olof,

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:46 PM Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:
> > This allows to derive the kernel flavor from the kernel version at
> > runtime.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
>
> I prefer not to have this go in -- this is extremely likely to creep
> into derivative configs and as such it would have no value (you can't
> be sure it's still the same config).

Fair enough. Unfortunately we cannot prevent that from happening :-(

> /proc/config.gz is the way to keep track of exactly what config you're
> running anyway, right?

Yes, in some convoluted and hard to identify way ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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