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Message-ID: <CAOWid-d=OFn7JS5JvsK9qc7X6HeZgOm5OAd1_g2=_GZgpKRZnA@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 11:37:54 -0400 From: Kenny Ho <y2kenny@...il.com> To: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>, Kenny Ho <Kenny.Ho@....com>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove hardcoded static string length On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 11:04 AM David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote: > But isn't UTS_RELEASE usually much shorter? > I think it is what 'uname -r' prints, the longest I've seen recently > is "3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64" - well under the limit. Usually yes, but I believe LOCALVERSION can be appended to KERNELRELEASE / UTS_RELEASE which can makes it much longer. > > "The standard formulation seems to be: <project> <version> built > > <yyyy>-<mm>-<dd>" > > Which I don't recall the string actually matching? > Also the people who like reproducible builds don't like __DATE__. That's correct, it was not matching even when it was introduced. I am simply taking that as people caring about the content and not simply making rxrpc_version_string == UTS_RELEASE. The current format is: "linux-" UTS_RELEASE " AF_RXRPC" Kenny
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