linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Date:	10 Jan 2007 00:39:40 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated

Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> writes:

> 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.

I even have scripts that require this to identify kernels. Please don't
remove it.

-Andi
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