Re: [GIT] kbuild changes for v3.11-rc1

[Michal Marek]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 07:11:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You need to start being more careful. And I would seriously suggest
> you start doing some explicit testing for this. You can do things like
> "find . -user root", and if that shows a single file in the kernel
> tree after a "make [modules_]install", then there's a problem.

Good idea. I added this after the *install calls in my test script.


> Commit d2aae8477cd00325bb7c7c7e95be488088900c48 is broken. It causes
> root to re-write "include/config/kernel.release".

Yeah. It also reveals another bug that we rewrite the kernel.release
file each time. This patch should fix it, but please do not apply it
yet: