linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Date:	Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:33:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, khali@...ux-fr.org, arvidjaar@...l.ru,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org,
	herbert@...hfloor.at, olaf@...fle.de
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:34 -0800

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to
> > > > make developers angry pretty quickly.
> > > 
> > > That might motivate them to fix it ;)
> > 
> > Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count entirely?
> 
> I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install
> that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"?  By comparing `uname -a'
> with $TOPDIR/.version.

Yeah me too :-)
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