[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Stop using __DATE__ and __TIME__ in startup string.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Mon Apr 27 22:12:10 UTC 2015


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:29:52PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> An increasing number of distributions ship with GCC 4.9 (including
>> Fedora and Ubuntu) that has -Werror=date-time. This causes kernel
>> compilation to fail because the builds are not exactly reproducible.
>>
>> This simply removes the use of those constants, which was already
>> done for the upstream Linux version of the module. It retains the
>> version string, however, which should provide the same information
>> in most cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Thanks, applied to master and branch-2.3 (since it is trivial and I'm
sure will start coming up there as well).



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