[PATCHv5 1/4] kbuild: Add build salt to the kernel and modules

[Laura Abbott]

On 07/03/2018 08:59 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Thanks for the update.
> 
> 
> 2018-07-04 8:34 GMT+09:00 Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>:
>>
>> The build id generated from --build-id can be generated in several different
>> ways, with the default being the sha1 on the output of the linked file. For
>> distributions, it can be useful to make sure this ID is unique, even if the
>> actual file contents don't change. The easiest way to do this is to insert
>> a section with some data.
>>
>> Add an ELF note to both the kernel and module which contains some data based
>> off of a config option.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> v5: I used S-o-b here since the majority of the code was written
>> already.
> 
> 
> I think Suggested-by is good enough.
> S-o-b is appended as a patch is passed from people to people.
> 
> Anyway, this looks good except one bike-shed.
> 
>> Please feel free to change the tag if you think it's not
>> appropriate. I also tweaked this to take an ascii string instead of just
>> a hex value since this makes things much easier on the distribution
>> side.
>> ---
> 
> 
>> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
>> index 041f3a022122..8de789f40db9 100644
>> --- a/init/Kconfig
>> +++ b/init/Kconfig
>> @@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
>>
>>            which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
>>
>> +config BUILD_SALT
>> +       string "Build ID Salt"
>> +       default "Linux"
> 
> 
> How about empty string ""
> for default?
> 

Sure, seems to work fine.

Thanks,
Laura