linux-kernel - Re: Anyone outright understand explain please,..

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Message-ID: <12240448.O9o76ZdvQC@natalenko.name>
Date:   Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:22:19 +0200
From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Budi <budikusasi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Anyone outright understand explain please,..

Hello.

On úterý 4. července 2023 9:46:17 CEST Budi wrote:
> Anyone outright understand so to explain
> What linux kernel #n (n is small number 1,2,3.. so on) acquired on
> just compiled one in kernel package 7
> 
> such like
> $ make
> ...
> ...
> ..arch/x86/boot/bzimage (#4)
> 
> $

That's a part of UTS_VERSION (see init/Makefile) that gets auto-incremented by the init/build-version script each time the kernel is recompiled from the current source tree without cleaning it (aka removing the .version file) first.

Thanks.

-- 
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
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