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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:09:51 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, G@....cz, 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 Tue 2009-10-06 22:31:19, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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? I admit -- I did not know about LOCALVERSION_AUTO, and many times wished -rc0 would be labeled as such. Now...perhaps LOCALVERSION_AUTO should not be option? Just hardwire it to Y? (But that still does not solve systems when someone, probably me, did rm -rf .git, for space and speed reasons). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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