Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932508AbXAJIxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:53:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932737AbXAJIxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:53:49 -0500 Received: from smtp-103-wednesday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.103]:2791 "EHLO mallaury.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932508AbXAJIxs (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:53:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:53:50 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated Message-Id: <20070110095350.8669dbba.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20070109152534.ebfa5aa8.akpm@osdl.org> 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.8.20; 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: 1209 Lines: 31 Hi Linus, Andrew, On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. This will no longer work with the current state of things, as $TOPDIR/.version keeps increasing. > > (...) We have more useful _real_ versioning these days, with git commit > > ID's etc. These are completely different types of IDs. The .version number is a local build ID and changes when one applies a local patch, or simply changes a config option, and recompiles his/her kernel. The git ID of course doesn't. >From the other comments in this thread, it looks like the build ID is something many people are interested in, so we can't just drop it. -- Jean Delvare - 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/