Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964847AbXAJLi0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:38:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964863AbXAJLi0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:38:26 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:54153 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964847AbXAJLiZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:38:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:31:05 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Andrew Morton , Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated In-Reply-To: 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 X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1199 Lines: 33 On Jan 9 2007 15:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >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. Like other people said, scripts rely on it. Not just kernel-build scripts or thelike. Note that this local build ID is _also_ in /proc/version, meaning that every possible script out there has code/regex to skip or read that one field. E.g. ($ver, $builder, $gcc, $id, $flags, $date) = ($_ =~ /^Linux version (\S+) \((\S+)\) \((.*)\) (#\d+) (.*) ((?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun).*)/); Oh well we could also put a static "#0" in there, but it also has its uses (see replies from other people). -`J' -- - 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/