linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910071348430.13522@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

> ... please just turn on CONFIG_LOCALCONFIG_AUTO

For git-tree-based builds, I'm delighted with CONFIG_LOCALCONFIG_AUTO.

But on my build engine, I don't need or want the exact commit id.
(I have a descriptive originating branch name for it already,
and that is a heck of a lot easier to understand)

Indeed SUBLEVEL and EXTRAVERSION in the Makefile turn out to be
just about ideal both for good .config file library re-use,
and with double buffering, storing of results.

So if the -rc* EXTRAVERSION naming scheme were applied consistently
so that it could differentiate between a final release and
the following merge window, then SUBLEVEL and EXTRAVERSION
would be all I need on my build box.

Re: scripts to generate .scmversion

I'll pass.

I'd rather a script to simply update SUBLEVEL and EXTRAVERSION
in the Makefile upon seeing the 1st commit of the merge window.
I was hoping you'd do that for me, but failing that,
I can do it for myself.  Just don't jump on me when I call
the merge window rc0.

thanks,
-Len
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