Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:33:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20070109.153315.48802683.davem@davemloft.net>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, herbert@13thfloor.at,
       olaf@aepfle.de
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:34 -0800

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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.

Yeah me too :-)
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