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Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname()
- From: Greg KH <greg at kroah dot com>
- To: Alan Stern <stern at rowland dot harvard dot edu>
- Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb at one-eyed-alien dot net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk at kernel dot org>, USB Storage list <usb-storage at lists dot one-eyed-alien dot net>, Kernel development list <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, "David S. Miller" <davem at sunset dot davemloft dot net>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation dot org>, linux-cifs-client at lists dot samba dot org, linux-nfs at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:09:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: don't call utsname()
- References: <20080521123700.GA8770@infradead.org> <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