linux-kernel - Re: [patch] kbuild: Improve version string logic

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:37:07 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] kbuild: Improve version string logic

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> It changes how CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO works, in the following trivial
> way:
> 
>  - if it is set, things work the way they always have, and you get a
>    extended kernel release like:
> 
> 	2.6.32-rc3+00052-g0eca52a-dirty
> 
>    ( with the difference that the extra version string is separated via
>      '+' not via '-'. This improves visibility when we have additional
>      changes over a vanilla tag. )

I really don't see how it improves visibility (unless you're oblivious
to the difference between long and short strings), but I do know that I
have a few parsers that this will break.

I think adding the + unconditionally will also break things like
debian's make-kpkg, for instance, since the + would get propagated into
the package version which reserves the + for something else.

Etc. Can we please make this stuff optional?

johannes

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (802 bytes)