linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910061155140.11706@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:56:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, mingo@...e.hu,
	hohndel@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Stefan Richter wrote:
>
>> Frans Pop wrote:
>>> Developers are supposed to be able to take care of themselves;
>>
>> _People who build kernels from sources which differ from releases_ are
>> supposed to take care of themselves.
>
> Yes. If you compile a random development kernel, you'd better then not
> come and whine to developers about how you can't tell which version it is.
> Especially when we do have things like CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO exactly
> for this case.
>
> But it's possible that people really just weren't aware of that whole
> LOCALVERSION_AUTO thing.

I will say that I was not aware of it, and I've been using kernel.org 
kernels for many years.

I'm glad to see it there. enabling it by default would probably be a very 
good thing.

David Lang
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