Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965195AbVIVAgw (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:36:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965196AbVIVAgv (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:36:51 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.205]:16258 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965195AbVIVAgv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:36:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KotnLCnjUXlVaBZaMVrgd07hET4FsZ+gS1DhI57mMc6uvkByEp+hley44EywOyo2cPWTMfuinQkwaVxGPvo+WOPT1ONZjeaiqpVmM4D0YyK2/Xz/iy+q+IX6KCHezLN6gQiobtXJJ3+If4HXQw2OAUxLdhmhvzFEFhthDbLigzE= Message-ID: <2cd57c900509211736414cea32@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:36:48 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt Reply-To: Coywolf Qi Hunt To: Blaisorblade Subject: Re: readme-update-from-the-stone-age.patch added to -mm tree Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <200509211630.33242.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200509202336.j8KNak00013479@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <2cd57c9005092019154758c826@mail.gmail.com> <200509211630.33242.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1432 Lines: 37 On 9/21/05, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2005 04:15, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > On 9/21/05, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > > > The patch titled > > > > > > README update from the stone age > > > > > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > > > > > readme-update-from-the-stone-age.patch > > > > > > > > > > @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ COMPILING the kernel: > > > are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your > > > working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you > > > do a "make modules_install". > > > + In alternative, before compiling, edit your Makefile and change the > > > + "EXTRAVERSION" line - its content is appended to the regular kernel > > > + version. > > > This is wrong. You expect users to both do menuconfig and edit top > > Makefile manually? What is the local version for then? > Ok, yes, feel free to upgrade this to the use of CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. Or I can > do it as well. > -- CONFIG_LOCALVERSION is for normal users while "EXTRAVERSION" is for developers to maintain different kernel trees. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - 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/