Re: [PATCH 2/5] ARM: davinci: Don't append git rev to local version

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On 10/26/2016 05:54 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
On Monday 24 October 2016 08:45 PM, David Lechner wrote:
On 10/24/2016 06:35 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
On Saturday 22 October 2016 12:06 AM, David Lechner wrote:
In the davinci default configuration, don't append the git revision to
the local kernel version by. This seems like the more desirable default
value.

Why? To the contrary I actually quite like the fact that the git commit
is appended to version string. Makes it easy for me to cross-check that
I am booting the right image.


Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Sekhar


Each time you make a commit, you get a new version, which installs
another copy of the kernel modules on the device. This will fill up the
SD card if you are making many commits.

Right, but thats easily fixable by removing existing modules before
installing new ones.

Also, if someone wants to build the mainline kernel using the default
configuration, it seems odd to have a git revision tacked on to the end
even though you made no revisions.

If you checkout a tag and build, then no commit information is added.
Which I guess is what most end users will do.

I don't see this done in other defconfigs like omap2plus and multi_v7 as
well. I would like to keep it similar for davinci.

Thanks,
Sekhar


OK, I will drop this patch.
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