Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932518AbXAIXWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:22:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932521AbXAIXWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:22:31 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:53069 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932518AbXAIXWa (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:22:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated In-Reply-To: <20070109133121.194f3261.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109170550.AFEF460C343@tzec.mtu.ru> <20070109214421.281ff564.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109133121.194f3261.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 837 Lines: 25 On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to > > make developers angry pretty quickly. > > That might motivate them to fix it ;) Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count entirely? I realize that it's really really old, and has been there basically since day one, but on the other hand, it's old not because it's fundamentally important, but because it's just been maintained. How about just dropping it entirely? We have more useful _real_ versioning these days, with git commit ID's etc. 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/