linux-kernel - Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107110124420.2818@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:26:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ?

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > If the plan is that the new kernel is going to be 3.0 (3.x) and the 
> > -stable kernels then get to tack on a third digit with EXTRAVERSION, then 
> > it seems to me that the main Makefile should get rid of SUBLEVEL - or?
> > 
> > Or is the plan to ditch EXTRAVERSION for -stable kernels and have them use 
> > SUBLEVEL instead?
> > 
> > There are a few scripts that need fixing if SUBLEVEL goes the way of the 
> > Dodo, but I didn't want to start fixing those without a clear indication 
> > of whether or not SUBLEVEL is going to/should die.
> > 
> > So what's going to happen to SUBLEVEL/EXTRAVERSION?
> 
> I cannot answer this, but I'd certainly like to see a clear answer
> since I also have several scripts that need such attention.
> 
And besides our own personal scriots there's also stuff like
	scripts/patch-kernel and Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
that need updating.

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