Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932522AbXAIX0G (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:26:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932523AbXAIX0G (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:26:06 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:53382 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932522AbXAIX0E (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:26:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated Message-Id: <20070109152534.ebfa5aa8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109170550.AFEF460C343@tzec.mtu.ru> <20070109214421.281ff564.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109133121.194f3261.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 22 On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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 use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing `uname -a' with $TOPDIR/.version. - 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/