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Rasmus Villemoes 78afc1990a scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable 
commit 548b8b5168 upstream.

When building for an embedded target using Yocto, we're sometimes
observing that the version string that gets built into vmlinux (and
thus what uname -a reports) differs from the path under /lib/modules/
where modules get installed in the rootfs, but only in the length of
the -gabc123def suffix. Hence modprobe always fails.

The problem is that Yocto has the concept of "sstate" (shared state),
which allows different developers/buildbots/etc. to share build
artifacts, based on a hash of all the metadata that went into building
that artifact - and that metadata includes all dependencies (e.g. the
compiler used etc.). That normally works quite well; usually a clean
build (without using any sstate cache) done by one developer ends up
being binary identical to a build done on another host. However, one
thing that can cause two developers to end up with different builds
[and thus make one's vmlinux package incompatible with the other's
kernel-dev package], which is not captured by the metadata hashing, is
this `git describe`: The output of that can be affected by

(1) git version: before 2.11 git defaulted to a minimum of 7, since
2.11 (git.git commit e6c587) the default is dynamic based on the
number of objects in the repo
(2) hence even if both run the same git version, the output can differ
based on how many remotes are being tracked (or just lots of local
development branches or plain old garbage)
(3) and of course somebody could have a core.abbrev config setting in
~/.gitconfig

So in order to avoid `uname -a` output relying on such random details
of the build environment which are rather hard to ensure are
consistent between developers and buildbots, make sure the abbreviated
sha1 always consists of exactly 12 hex characters. That is consistent
with the current rule for -stable patches, and is almost always enough
to identify the head commit unambigously - in the few cases where it
does not, the v5.4.3-00021- prefix would certainly nail it down.

[Adapt to `` vs $() differences between 5.4 and upstream.]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2020-11-05 11:06:51 +01:00
Documentation x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameter 2020-10-29 09:07:00 +01:00
arch powerpc/powernv/opal-dump : Use IRQ_HANDLED instead of numbers in interrupt handler 2020-10-29 09:07:21 +01:00
block block: ensure bdi->io_pages is always initialized 2020-09-12 13:39:11 +02:00
certs Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-09-09 19:55:54 +02:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:07:01 +01:00
drivers usb: gadget: f_ncm: allow using NCM in SuperSpeed Plus gadgets. 2020-10-29 09:07:20 +01:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:20:30 +01:00
fs reiserfs: Fix memory leak in reiserfs_parse_options() 2020-10-29 09:07:19 +01:00
include scsi: target: core: Add CONTROL field for trace events 2020-10-29 09:07:16 +01:00
init x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:17:15 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:17:07 +02:00
kernel PM: hibernate: remove the bogus call to get_gendisk() in software_resume() 2020-10-29 09:07:16 +01:00
lib lib/crc32.c: fix trivial typo in preprocessor condition 2020-10-29 09:07:10 +01:00
mm mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary 2020-10-29 09:07:08 +01:00
net ipvs: Fix uninit-value in do_ip_vs_set_ctl() 2020-10-29 09:07:19 +01:00
samples misc: vop: add round_up(x,4) for vring_size to avoid kernel panic 2020-10-29 09:07:17 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable 2020-11-05 11:06:51 +01:00
security ima: Don't ignore errors from crypto_shash_update() 2020-10-29 09:07:00 +01:00
sound ALSA: seq: oss: Avoid mutex lock for a long-time ioctl 2020-10-29 09:07:06 +01:00
tools perf intel-pt: Fix "context_switch event has no tid" error 2020-10-29 09:07:09 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:34:19 +02:00
virt KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running 2020-10-01 13:12:33 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:36:12 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.203 2020-10-29 09:07:21 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.