From: Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] embed git head hash as /dev/head
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:13:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50e54a5f-1b04-f2fc-fd0b-29a9c1758694@posixcafe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a87884cd-d4f3-d475-d02c-e8f730ef2372@riseup.net>
On 6/10/22 13:01, mkf9 wrote:
> Jacob Moody wrote:
>> This embeds the current commit hash for HEAD
>> in to devcons as /dev/head. Thought this could be
>> handy, curious to hear what others think.
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> moody
>
> since this device depends on one specific file,
> is there any other device that depends on a file somewhere
> in order to work?
>
Kind of, we embed the kernel 'config' at build time in to
/dev/config. So yes it depends on that file, but you could
call that config part of the source code for the kernel.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-10 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-10 7:32 Jacob Moody
2022-06-10 14:07 ` ori
2022-06-10 16:03 ` Jacob Moody
2022-06-14 17:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-06-14 19:37 ` Jacob Moody
2022-06-10 19:01 ` mkf9
2022-06-10 19:13 ` Jacob Moody [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=50e54a5f-1b04-f2fc-fd0b-29a9c1758694@posixcafe.org \
--to=moody@mail.posixcafe.org \
--cc=9front@9front.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).