cvs commit: src/sys/dev/led led.h

Bruce Evans bde at zeta.org.au
Wed May 12 12:51:10 PDT 2004


On Wed, 12 May 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:39:55PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >This is not as bad as the programs that use __DATE__ or __TIME__, or
> >generate a version.c file whose version changes on every recompile, so
> >that repeated buildworlds cannot produce the same result twice.
>
> The kernel 'version' is annoying because not only does it change on
> every kernel compile but when it goes from 9 to 10 the string length
> changes.

Most of my kernels have version numbers of several thousands, so I rarely
notice the latter :-).

Bruce


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