linux-kernel - Re: kbuild, localversion (Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files)

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Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:35 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild, localversion (Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files)

> 
> What i currently have is:
> 
> -- top file 'Linux.version', with first line:
> 
> 3.0.0-rcX
> which can be parsed to fill variables, used in build process (how many
> `.' and/or `-' in it -- doesn't really matter), second line is the name;
> 
> -- 'MM.version' for MM tree;
> 
> -- '[a-z]*\.version' for anything else.
> 
> usual sort will place files in right order.

Too much depend on having version in Makefile so this is a no-go to change.
This has been like this since very early days so we shall not change it.

	Sam
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