Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266680AbUJTOmj (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:42:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267375AbUJTOjZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:39:25 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:37325 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266680AbUJTOdx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:33:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:33:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Len Brown cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: Versioning of tree In-Reply-To: <1098256951.26595.4296.camel@d845pe> Message-ID: References: <1098254970.3223.6.camel@gaston> <1098256951.26595.4296.camel@d845pe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1528 Lines: 35 On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Len Brown wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 02:49, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > After you tag a "release" tree in bk, could you bump the version > > number right away, with eventually some junk in EXTRAVERSION like > > "-devel" ? > > I'd find this to be really helpful too. There has been this period > between, say, 2.6.9 and 2.6.10-whatever where my build/install scripts > scribble over my "reference" kernels. Personally, I much rather go the way we have gone, because I don't care about module versioning nearly as much as I care about bug-report versioning. And if I hear about a bug with 2.6.10-rc1, I want to know that it really is at _least_ 2.6.10-rc1, if you see what I mean.. Now, personally, I'd actually like to know the exact top-of-tree changeset, so I've considered having something that saves that one away, but then we'd need to do something about non-BK users (make the nightly snapshots squirrell it away somewhere too). That would solve both the module versioning _and_ the bug-report issue. So if somebody comes up with a build script that generates that kind of extra-version automatically, I'm more receptive. But I don't want to muck with the version manually in a way that I think is the wrong way around.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/