Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932639AbXAJBnV (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:43:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932636AbXAJBnV (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:43:21 -0500 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([213.145.232.33]:56019 "EHLO MAIL.13thfloor.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932637AbXAJBnU (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:43:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:43:19 +0100 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated Message-ID: <20070110014319.GA7145@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Olaf Hering References: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109170550.AFEF460C343@tzec.mtu.ru> <20070109214421.281ff564.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109133121.194f3261.akpm@osdl.org> <20070109152534.ebfa5aa8.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070109152534.ebfa5aa8.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 30 On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:25:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. second that! please do not remove this useful 'debug' feature :) TIA, Herbert - 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/