8ef14c2c41
This reverts commit 6147b1cf19651c7de297e69108b141fb30aa2349.
The reverted patch results in attempted write access to the source
repository, even if that repository is mounted read-only.
Output from "strace git status -uno --porcelain":
getcwd("/tmp/linux-test", 129) = 16
open("/tmp/linux-test/.git/index.lock", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) =
-1 EROFS (Read-only file system)
While git appears to be able to handle this situation, a monitored
build environment (such as the one used for Chrome OS kernel builds)
may detect it and bail out with an access violation error. On top of
that, the attempted write access suggests that git _will_ write to the
file even if a build output directory is specified. Users may have the
reasonable expectation that the source repository remains untouched in
that situation.
Fixes: 6147b1cf19651 ("scripts/setlocalversion: git: Make -dirty check more robust"
Cc: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.