The patch titled
usb-storage: do not rebuild when kernel version changes
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
usb-storage-do-not-rebuild-when-kernel-version-changes.patch
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Subject: usb-storage: do not rebuild when kernel version changes
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Replacing use of UTS_RELEASE with utsname()->release avoids that the
usb-storage driver is recompiled each time the kernel version changes.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/storage/usb.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/usb/storage/usb.c~usb-storage-do-not-rebuild-when-kernel-version-changes drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c~usb-storage-do-not-rebuild-when-kernel-version-changes
+++ a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/utsrelease.h>
+#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <scsi/scsi.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ static int get_device_info(struct us_dat
idesc->bInterfaceSubClass,
idesc->bInterfaceProtocol,
msgs[msg],
- UTS_RELEASE);
+ utsname()->release);
}
return 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
usb-storage-do-not-rebuild-when-kernel-version-changes.patch
kbuild-override-build-timestamp.patch
kconfig-abort-configuration-with-recursive-dependencies.patch
pcie-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch
aer-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch
pci-do-not-mark-exported-functions-as-__devinit.patch
x86_64-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch
fix-section-mismatch-warning-in-lib-swiotlbc.patch
extend-print_symbol-capability.patch
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