Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:42:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
cc: "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:

	[...snip...]

> > I think it will confuse scripts which expect something local in the 4th 
> > field. I confess that I have such, and that field is turned into a 
> > directory name during builds, so test results are saved in a proper 
> > place. I think vendors and people who care will just keep three digits, 
> > and those who want the last can make their EXTRAVERSION
> >    2.Joes_Bar_&_Grill_486
> > or whatever is needed.
> 
> There's also the LOCALVERSION that can be set in the config file.  I've 
> switched to using that, since it means one less kernel patch to port.

I have to see what that generates. The problem is LOCALVERSION and current
use of both 3 and 4 field kernel versions. You need a smarter script to
handle that.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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