Re: [PATCH] X86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/math-errors.c -take 2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paolo Ciarrocchi ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > On Jan 27, 2008 11:48 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Jan 27, 2008 11:42 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > How should I compare the .o file?
> > Simply doing a md5sum or should I do a objdump -d before?
> > Or a strip?
> > 
> 
> Comparing the vmlinux images shoudls suffice. But you'll have to make 
> sure that the object file resulting from the C source that you're 
> changing gets linked into vmlinux.

the vmlinux includes build timestamps so that wont really match. Would 
be nice to have a build mode that results in a constant vmlinux image. 
(as long as the .config and the build environment is constant as well) 
Sam, would this be hard to add? :-)

	Ingo
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