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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101426400.14458@scrub.home>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:45:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated
Hi,
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I tried a git bisect to find out what commit was reponsible for it, and
> the winner is...
>
> 8993780a6e44fb4e7ed34e33458506a775356c6e is first bad commit
> commit 8993780a6e44fb4e7ed34e33458506a775356c6e
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...dy.osdl.org>
> Date: Mon Dec 11 09:28:46 2006 -0800
>
> [..]
> Reverting this from 2.6.20-rc1 made the build behave again, however I
> found that reverting it from 2.6.20-rc2 did _not_ fix the problem. I
> also had to revert the following patch to make things work as before
> again:
>
> commit ef129412b4cbd6686d0749612cb9b76e207271f4
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> Date: Fri Dec 22 01:12:01 2006 -0800
To make the list complete, this patch started all the mess:
commit a2ee8649ba6d71416712e798276bf7c40b64e6e5
Author: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>
Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:00 2006 -0800
[PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information
and this tries to fix a problem in Andrew's patch:
commit d449db98d5d7d90f29f9f6e091b0e1d996184df1
Author: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Date: Fri Dec 29 16:48:09 2006 -0800
[PATCH] fix mrproper incompleteness
The patch below reverts pretty much everything and instead introduces a
seperate format string for proc.
bye, Roman
[PATCH] fix linux banner format string
Revert previous attempts at messing with the linux banner string and
simply use a separate format string for proc.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
---
Makefile | 31 +++++++++----------------------
fs/proc/proc_misc.c | 8 +-------
include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +++
init/Makefile | 10 +++++++++-
init/main.c | 8 --------
init/version.c | 10 ++++++++++
6 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/fs/proc/proc_misc.c 2007-01-10 04:27:23.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/fs/proc/proc_misc.c 2007-01-10 04:33:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
-#include <linux/compile.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -254,12 +253,7 @@ static int version_read_proc(char *page,
{
int len;
- /* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */
- len = snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE,
- "%s version %s"
- " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
- " (" LINUX_COMPILER ")"
- " %s\n",
+ len = snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE, linux_proc_banner,
utsname()->sysname,
utsname()->release,
utsname()->version);
Index: linux-2.6-git/include/linux/kernel.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/include/linux/kernel.h 2007-01-10 04:26:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/include/linux/kernel.h 2007-01-10 04:27:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
#include <asm/bug.h>
+extern const char linux_banner[];
+extern const char linux_proc_banner[];
+
#define INT_MAX ((int)(~0U>>1))
#define INT_MIN (-INT_MAX - 1)
#define UINT_MAX (~0U)
Index: linux-2.6-git/init/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/init/main.c 2007-01-10 04:34:02.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/init/main.c 2007-01-10 14:20:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -50,9 +50,7 @@
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
#include <linux/lockdep.h>
-#include <linux/utsrelease.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
-#include <linux/compile.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -482,12 +480,6 @@ void __init __attribute__((weak)) smp_se
{
}
-static const char linux_banner[] =
- "Linux version " UTS_RELEASE
- " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
- " (" LINUX_COMPILER ")"
- " " UTS_VERSION "\n";
-
asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
{
char * command_line;
Index: linux-2.6-git/init/version.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/init/version.c 2007-01-10 04:29:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/init/version.c 2007-01-10 04:41:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -33,3 +33,13 @@ struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
},
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
+
+/* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */
+const char __init linux_banner[] =
+ "Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
+ LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n";
+
+const char linux_proc_banner[] =
+ "%s version %s"
+ " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
+ " (" LINUX_COMPILER ") %s\n";
Index: linux-2.6-git/init/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/init/Makefile 2007-01-10 04:44:59.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/init/Makefile 2007-01-10 14:06:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ clean-files := ../include/linux/compile.
# dependencies on generated files need to be listed explicitly
-$(obj)/main.o: include/linux/compile.h
$(obj)/version.o: include/linux/compile.h
+# compile.h changes depending on hostname, generation number, etc,
+# so we regenerate it always.
+# mkcompile_h will make sure to only update the
+# actual file if its content has changed.
+
+include/linux/compile.h: FORCE
+ @echo ' CHK $@'
+ $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkcompile_h $@ \
+ "$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT)" "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)"
Index: linux-2.6-git/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/Makefile 2007-01-10 14:01:24.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/Makefile 2007-01-10 14:06:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -368,14 +368,10 @@ endif
# Detect when mixed targets is specified, and make a second invocation
# of make so .config is not included in this case either (for *config).
-PHONY += generated_headers
-
-generated_headers: include/linux/version.h include/linux/compile.h \
- include/linux/utsrelease.h
-
-no-dot-config-targets := generated_headers clean mrproper distclean \
+no-dot-config-targets := clean mrproper distclean \
cscope TAGS tags help %docs check% \
- headers_% kernelrelease kernelversion
+ include/linux/version.h headers_% \
+ kernelrelease kernelversion
config-targets := 0
mixed-targets := 0
@@ -738,16 +734,6 @@ debug_kallsyms: .tmp_map$(last_kallsyms)
endif # ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
-# compile.h changes depending on hostname, generation number, etc,
-# so we regenerate it always.
-# mkcompile_h will make sure to only update the
-# actual file if its content has changed.
-
-include/linux/compile.h: FORCE
- @echo ' CHK $@'
- $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkcompile_h $@ \
- "$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT)" "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)"
-
# vmlinux image - including updated kernel symbols
vmlinux: $(vmlinux-lds) $(vmlinux-init) $(vmlinux-main) $(kallsyms.o) FORCE
ifdef CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK
@@ -866,8 +852,8 @@ endif
# prepare2 creates a makefile if using a separate output directory
prepare2: prepare3 outputmakefile
-prepare1: prepare2 generated_headers include/asm include/config/auto.conf
-
+prepare1: prepare2 include/linux/version.h include/linux/utsrelease.h \
+ include/asm include/config/auto.conf
ifneq ($(KBUILD_MODULES),)
$(Q)mkdir -p $(MODVERDIR)
$(Q)rm -f $(MODVERDIR)/*
@@ -936,14 +922,14 @@ export INSTALL_HDR_PATH
HDRARCHES=$(filter-out generic,$(patsubst $(srctree)/include/asm-%/Kbuild,%,$(wildcard $(srctree)/include/asm-*/Kbuild)))
PHONY += headers_install_all
-headers_install_all: generated_headers scripts_basic FORCE
+headers_install_all: include/linux/version.h scripts_basic FORCE
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts scripts/unifdef
$(Q)for arch in $(HDRARCHES); do \
$(MAKE) ARCH=$$arch -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.headersinst obj=include BIASMDIR=-bi-$$arch ;\
done
PHONY += headers_install
-headers_install: generated_headers scripts_basic FORCE
+headers_install: include/linux/version.h scripts_basic FORCE
@if [ ! -r $(srctree)/include/asm-$(ARCH)/Kbuild ]; then \
echo '*** Error: Headers not exportable for this architecture ($(ARCH))'; \
exit 1 ; fi
@@ -1040,7 +1026,8 @@ CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux System.map \
# Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
MRPROPER_DIRS += include/config include2 usr/include
MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old include/asm .version .old_version \
- include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/utsrelease.h include/linux/version.h \
+ include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h \
+ include/linux/utsrelease.h \
Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope*
# clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules
-
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