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Rasmus Villemoes 2dcb0c6c38 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>
2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
Documentation x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameter 2020-10-29 09:57:29 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch x86/mce: Make mce_rdmsrl() panic on an inaccessible MSR 2020-10-29 09:58:03 +01:00
block block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message 2020-10-29 09:58:01 +01:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:57:30 +01:00
drivers usb: gadget: f_ncm: allow using NCM in SuperSpeed Plus gadgets. 2020-10-29 09:58:11 +01:00
fs reiserfs: Fix memory leak in reiserfs_parse_options() 2020-10-29 09:58:08 +01:00
include netfilter: nftables_offload: KASAN slab-out-of-bounds Read in nft_flow_rule_create 2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
init kprobes: tracing/kprobes: Fix to kill kprobes on initmem after boot 2020-10-01 13:18:23 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel bpf: Limit caller's stack depth 256 for subprogs with tailcalls 2020-10-29 09:58:06 +01:00
lib lib/crc32.c: fix trivial typo in preprocessor condition 2020-10-29 09:57:52 +01:00
mm mm/page_owner: change split_page_owner to take a count 2020-10-29 09:57:52 +01:00
net socket: don't clear SOCK_TSTAMP_NEW when SO_TIMESTAMPNS is disabled 2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
samples misc: vop: add round_up(x,4) for vring_size to avoid kernel panic 2020-10-29 09:58:04 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable 2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
security ima: Don't ignore errors from crypto_shash_update() 2020-10-29 09:57:28 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Add new quirk ID for SoundBlaster AE-7. 2020-10-29 09:58:09 +01:00
tools objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation 2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Assume write fault on S1PTW permission fault on instruction fetch 2020-10-01 13:18:25 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.73 2020-10-29 09:58:11 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.