On 31/01/2024 16:22, Greg KH wrote:

quoted

before:
real    0m53.591s
user    1m1.842s
sys     0m9.161s

after:
real    0m37.481s
user    0m46.461s
sys     0m7.199s

Sending as an RFC as I need to test more of the conversions and I would
like to also convert more UTS_RELEASE users to prove this is proper
approach.

I like it, I also think that v4l2 includes this as well as all of those
drivers seem to rebuild when this changes, does that not happen for you
too?

I didn't see that. Were you were building for arm64? I can see some v4l2 
configs enabled there for the vanilla defconfig (but none for x86-64).

Anyway, if the firmware changes work, I'm all for this, thanks for
taking it on!

cheers. BTW, I just noticed that utsrelase.h might not be updated for my 
allmodconfig build when I change the head commit - I'll investigate why ...

John