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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse•de>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse•cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:49:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110405154918.GA31337@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz>

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?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 14:58 [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic Michal Marek
2011-04-05 14:58 ` [PATCH 03/34] powerpc: Call gzip with -n Michal Marek
2011-04-05 14:58 ` [PATCH 05/34] powerpc: Use the deterministic mode of ar Michal Marek
2011-04-05 15:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-04-05 18:16   ` [PATCH 00/34] Make kernel build deterministic James Bottomley
2011-04-05 18:29     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-04-05 18:44       ` Greg KH
2011-04-05 19:24   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-06  8:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-06  9:07     ` Michal Marek
2011-04-06  9:25       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-06  9:23   ` Michal Marek
2011-04-06  9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-05 15:22 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc: Use the deterministic mode of ar Michal Marek

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