From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751014Ab0CEGK5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:10:57 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59722 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750888Ab0CEGKy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:10:54 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/QGtxPO+TQntZJTrHkdObBQ8q5MCS0THFFQZZjIB QMGrUynp4OgJUD Subject: Re: [PATCH] v3 kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM From: Mike Galbraith To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, elendil@planet.nl, cloos@jhcloos.com In-Reply-To: <20100305025435.GA6836@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20100305025435.GA6836@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:10:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1267769448.6392.17.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.60999999999999999 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 18:54 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > This patch appends the localversion string to the Linux kernel version. > For example, in a git tree with uncommitted changes, the .config file > might start as follows (but with leading hash marks): > > Automatically generated make config: don't edit > Linux kernel version: 2.6.33-01836-g90a6501-dirty > Mon Mar 1 17:05:59 2010 > > The "-01836-g90a6501-dirty" string is added by this patch. I really like this. This gives me the advantages of non-volatile build info without the mess that makes if it's appended to file names/paths. -Mike Eventually someone will make bisect stop stepping on random kernels, and generally making a mess, and life will be grand ;-)