On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 03:40:26PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > Hi, > > Please consider whether > > commit 548b8b5168c90c42e88f70fcf041b4ce0b8e7aa8 > Author: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Sep 17 08:56:11 2020 +0200 > > scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable > > qualifies for -stable. It removes one potential source of binary > non-reproducibility that we have actually seen cause problems. > > I'm fine with it not qualifying, but please let me know if so, because > then I'll go and add some workarounds to various customer projects. > > In case it doesn't cherry-pick cleanly (I think there might have been > some shell-portability patches replacing $() by `` or something like > that) I am happy to provide backports to the still maintained -stable > branches. Looks like it qualifies, how far back do you want it to go? And yes, backported patches always make it much easier to apply :) thanks, greg k-h
