On Thu, 12 May 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Paulo Marques wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:07:55PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Just a small sugestion: do a sha (or md5sum, or whatever hash function
> > > > you prefer) to vmlinux before and after applying the patches.
> > > >
> > > > If all is well, it shouldn't change (since this is just whitespace
> > > > cleanup), and it is a little more robust than just checking the size.
> > >
> > > That's wrong.
> > >
> > > vmlinux contains the date of the compilation.
> >
> > You're right, I forgot about that...
> >
> > Removing UTS_VERSION from init/version.c would make this work, or are there
> > other places where this might be a problem?
>
> Ok, I've just tested this.
>
> At least with my config, if I remove both instances of UTS_VERSION from
> init/version.c, the resulting vmlinux files are exactly identical with the
> same sha1sum.
>
> So maybe Jesper can use this to make *really* sure that there are no actual
> changes with the patches, just whitespace changes.
>
Yeah, that does seem to work. I had not thought of that - thanks.
/Jesper Juhl
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