[PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Tue Apr 5 14:44:16 EDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:29:19PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 05-04-2011 15:16, James Bottomley escreveu:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 08:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:58:47PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> this series makes it possible to build bit-identical kernel image and
> >>> modules from identical sources. Of course the build is already
> >>> deterministic in terms of behavior of the code, but the various
> >>> timestamps embedded in the object files make it hard to compare two
> >>> builds, for instance to verify that a makefile cleanup didn't
> >>> accidentally change something. A prime example is /proc/config.gz, which
> >>> has both a timestamp in the gzip header and a timestamp in the payload
> >>> data. With this series applied, a script like this will produce
> >>> identical kernels each time:
> >>
> >> Very nice stuff.  Do you want to take the individual patches through one
> >> of your trees, or do you mind if the subsystem maintainers take them
> >> through theirs?
> > 
> > I'm happy for this to go through a single tree.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> With respect to the patches I was c/c (patches 13, 14, 31):
> 
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at redhat.com>

Me too.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>

on the patches I was copied on.

thanks,

greg k-h




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