linux-kernel - Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful

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Date:	Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:48:14 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	rdunlap@...otime.net
Cc:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	"kernel list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful


On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:56 PM, rdunlap@...otime.net wrote:
> 
> So what do you suggest?  If the "magic" strings contain "-dirty ",
> then ignore that and the 2 preceding hyphen-separated fields?

I have a standard local patch that I've been carrying for I-don't-know-how-long which just nukes the "-dirty" suffix, which I needed because make-kpkg modifies some kernel build files, so the version string would always have 
-dirty.

It's not hard to fix...

-- Ted

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