On 14-06-05 03:29 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 06/05/2014 03:15 PM, eric ernst wrote:
On 14-06-05 03:16 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:09:17 -0700 eric.er...@linux.intel.com wrote:
Create a kernel cmdline parameter, "version_addendum", which can be
used to add text to the kernel version that is reported from
/proc/version.
why?
We have a need to keep a single product binary (kernel) across multiple android
devices. A subset of these platforms are looking for extra versioning
information appended to it, accessible via /proc/version. Rather than build
multiple otherwise identical kernels with only this extended versioning as
differentiation, we are looking to make this a command line parameter.
Understandable if there isn't enough value-add for the community in this patch,
but I figured I'd give the patch a shot, as we need this functionality locally.
Thanks.
Please use a newline character every 70-72 characters instead of assuming
that all email programs will break that extra long line up into a readable
format. (mine does not.)
Ack - sorry Randy - it was a quick cp / paste from earlier in the thread.
What software needs to know the version info? how early does it run?
Could it get the version info from 'uname -r' instead of from /proc/version?
thanks,
This'll end up being used by a third party customer for tracking
particular devices, so I'm sure "much, much later" in user space. While
I'm sure they could use uname instead, the specific request was for
/proc/version.
The more I look into this patch, the more I think this is a pretty
specific use case that probably doesn't have a lot of community
value-add outside of our scenario. Thanks for the feedback.
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