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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	USB Storage list <usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>,
	systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname()
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:09:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521180957.GA17598@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0805211349480.3409-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 18:29 [2.6 patch] unexport uts_sem Adrian Bunk
2008-05-20 17:16 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-05-20 17:27   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-20 18:38     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-05-21 12:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 14:48         ` Steve French (smfltc)
2008-05-21 17:51         ` [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname() Alan Stern
2008-05-21 18:09           ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-05-21 18:19             ` Steve French (smfltc)
2008-05-21 18:52             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 19:35               ` Greg KH
2008-05-21 21:01                 ` Steve French (smfltc)

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