linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/22] ver_linux: gcc -dumpversion, use regex to find version number

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:29:09 +0300
From:	Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	richard@....at, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] ver_linux: gcc -dumpversion, use regex to find
 version number

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com> wrote:
> I tried out patches 1-22 on a Fedora 22 system with the v4.3-rc5
> source tree; everything looks pretty good.  The old ver_linux script
> didn't get the mount version right, but the new one does
>
> < mount                  debug
>> Mount            2.26.2
>
> One minor thing with Net-tools, the old version printed
>
> < Net-tools              2.10-alpha
>
> while the regex the in the new version skips the '-alpha'
>
>> Net-tools        2.10
>
> Though I'm not a big fan of patch 22 (the sed hold space thing) there
> are several nice improvements all in all.
>
> --
> Jim

Thanks very much for reviewing the patches and for your commentary.
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