Re: [PATCH] net: ethtool: avoid rebuilds on UTS_RELEASE change

[Jann Horn]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 8:23 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:42:44 +0100 Jann Horn wrote:
> > Currently, when you switch between branches or something like that and
> > rebuild, net/ethtool/ioctl.c has to be built again because it depends
> > on UTS_RELEASE.
> >
> > By instead referencing a string variable stored in another object file,
> > this can be avoided.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > (alternatively we could also use the utsname info from the current UTS
> > namespace, but that'd be a bit of a behavior change, and I wanted to
> > keep this change a no-op)
>
> Is this related to John's work from:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131104851.2311358-1-john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx/
> ?

Ah, I didn't see his patch, but that seems like he had the same idea
(but implemented it less sloppily). You can drop this one then...