Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932185AbXBNIai (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:30:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932168AbXBNIai (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:30:38 -0500 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:51568 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932185AbXBNIah (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:30:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:35 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Oleg Verych Cc: Roman Zippel , Linus Torvalds , Tony Luck , LKML , Andrew Morton , Jesper Juhl , Bastian Blank Subject: Re: kbuild, localversion (Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files) Message-ID: <20070214083035.GA25617@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070206011819.160359000@flower.upol.cz> <20070206012208.050237000@flower.upol.cz> <12c511ca0702121409t30e126dfh445d13dd2f637e08@mail.gmail.com> <20070213003258.GA15534@flower.upol.cz> <20070213050503.GA27441@flower.upol.cz> <20070214011644.GA13502@flower.upol.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070214011644.GA13502@flower.upol.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 24 > > What i currently have is: > > -- top file 'Linux.version', with first line: > > 3.0.0-rcX > which can be parsed to fill variables, used in build process (how many > `.' and/or `-' in it -- doesn't really matter), second line is the name; > > -- 'MM.version' for MM tree; > > -- '[a-z]*\.version' for anything else. > > usual sort will place files in right order. Too much depend on having version in Makefile so this is a no-go to change. This has been like this since very early days so we shall not change it. Sam - 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/