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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/math-errors.c - take 2
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:44:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128104459.GA32342@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479D1FD1.2070105@gmail.com>


* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:

> Paolo Ciarrocchi пишет:
> > On Jan 27, 2008 11:48 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Jan 27, 2008 11:42 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-27 22:15 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-01-27 22:32 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-01-27 22:38   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-01-27 22:42   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 22:48     ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-01-27 23:57       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-01-28  0:20         ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-01-28 10:44           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-28 11:00             ` Dmitri Vorobiev

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