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Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: remove generated/utsrelease.h dependency

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Note:
This patch is for upstream (2.6.33) and occured after having merged
linux-kbuild tree [1] in linus-tree.

- Sedat -

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-kbuild.git

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 900bb717424e5df12b1ef7ebb017be2a8915b806 uses UTS_RELEASE
> as the the in-tree iwlwifi driver version. However the inclusion
> of generated/utsrelease.h makes it a unpleasant behaviour to
> recompile the driver everytime when utsrelease.h is updated. In
> fact, the driver module is already built with the UTS_RELEASE
> information via vermagic of modinfo. Mark the in-tree driver
> with the version string "in-tree" to distinguish with those old
> out-of-tree drivers.
>
> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
> index 308f679..375226b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
> @@ -63,8 +63,6 @@
>  #ifndef __iwl_core_h__
>  #define __iwl_core_h__
>
> -#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
> -
>  /************************
>  * forward declarations *
>  ************************/
> @@ -72,7 +70,7 @@ struct iwl_host_cmd;
>  struct iwl_cmd;
>
>
> -#define IWLWIFI_VERSION UTS_RELEASE "-k"
> +#define IWLWIFI_VERSION "in-tree:"
>  #define DRV_COPYRIGHT  "Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation"
>  #define DRV_AUTHOR     "<ilw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
>
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
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