linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:31:19 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, G@....edu
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> Why don't you just have the kernel version Linux-commitid?
> 
> why keep up the pretense that the 2.6.xx bit means anything outside of release?
> 
> You could just have the tarball generation scripts make it into a 2.6.31 but
> for everyone else we never see it.

The tarball generation scripts for the daily snapshots already set
EXTRAVERSION to -git15, -git16, etc.

So the problem seems to be localized to those users/developers who are
smart enough to use git, and dumb enough not to set
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO.  So big of a set this actually is, I can't
say.  Do we have any statistics about how many bug reporters make this
mistake?

						- Ted
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