Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932221AbZJFRUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:20:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756920AbZJFRUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:20:52 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:60303 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756075AbZJFRUv (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:20:51 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4ACB7B4D.8080203@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:15:57 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090926 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Ingo Molnar , Dirk Hohndel , Len Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> <20091006153632.GA29795@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 33 Linus Torvalds wrote: > So how about this? > > It changes how CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO works, in the following trivial > way: > > - if it is set, things work the way they always have, and you get a > extended kernel release like > > 2.6.32-rc3-00052-g0eca52a-dirty > > - but if it is _not_ set, [...] > we append just "+", so you get a version number like > > 2.6.32-rc3+ [...] > The "+" could be anything else, of course. The diff is pretty obvious, you > can argue about exactly _what_ you'd like to see as a suffix for "and then > some". The "+" suffix is already in informal use with a different meaning. It's customary to write "For feature XY, you need kernel 2.6.31+" as a shorthand for "kernel 2.6.31 or any later release". -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/