On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:51:17PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:I agree - what was wrong with utsname->release ... it seems odd to statically build the kernel's version
This patch (as1100) replaces the core-kernel function call to utsname()
in usb-storage with the UTS_RELEASE macro. It's used only for warning
about extra unusual_devs entries.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Why? With this change, if you change the version number, the file will
have to be rebuilt. Without the change, the file will not need to be
rebuilt, right?
I thought that was why this change was made a while ago, to prevent
things from having to be rebuilt that didn't need to be