Re: [RFC] Putting the date back into utsname::version
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:34:28AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> alt: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT 2023-02-21 Debian 9.99~rc99-9~experimental.9 [62]
> alt: #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 9.99~rc99-9~experimental.9 (2023-02-21) [64]
This increases the distance between two versions to maybe 2 or 3 bytes.
> Would anyone like to argue in favour of any particular alternative?
We can remove the useless information, aka the build couter that is
always 1 in our builds and some of the flags like SMP. Then we've got
enough space.
Bastian
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