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charset=\"us-ascii\"", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "7bit", "Errors-To": "buildroot-bounces@buildroot.org", "Sender": "\"buildroot\" <buildroot-bounces@buildroot.org>" }, "content": "Working with embedded platforms I found very useful having the\nbuildroot commit hash part of the kernel version string.\nBuilding different images and I could always trace back to\nany change made to buildroot in between different builds.\n\nIn the same way I also found very useful to know exactly which\ncommit hash was used to build the Linux kernel during development,\nso I can check specific commits that could introduce later an issue.\nWith the default buildroot configuration, this patch adds the kernel\ncommit hash to the kernel version string, in case LINUX_DIR contains\na valid git repo.\n\nSigned-off-by: Flaviu Nistor <flaviu.nistor@gmail.com>\n\nFlaviu Nistor (1):\n linux/linux.mk: add kernel commit hash\n\n linux/linux.mk | 8 +++++++-\n 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)" }