Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933092AbZJFS0H (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757540AbZJFS0G (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:26:06 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:40702 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756666AbZJFS0E (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:26:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:24:48 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , Dirk Hohndel , Len Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Message-ID: <20091006182448.GB25732@elte.hu> References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> <20091006153632.GA29795@elte.hu> <20091006164028.GA23305@elte.hu> <20091006181218.GD24677@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091006181218.GD24677@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1659 Lines: 47 * Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 06:40:28PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Could we, for consistency's sake, make it: > > > > 2.6.32-rc3+00052-g0eca52a-dirty > > 2.6.32-rc3+ > > > > ? Or do we want to keep the old version string alone for some reason? > > I'm a bit concerned that changing from what we've currently had: > > > 2.6.29-00052-g0eca52a-dirty > > might break some packaging scripts. [...] ( Sidenote: such scripts might as well need fixing then, even without any upstream changes - adding a localversion file to the top level directory (which many out of tree projects do) would possibly break them as well. ) > [...] I'm also personally used to that naming scheme; in fact at the > moment I'm using 2.6.32-rc1-00292-gb0390e2. :-) Yeah, i'm pretty happy with auto-localversion as well and use it everywhere. What i suggested is a small tweak to that: to make it more clear what people get during the merge window - when the string says "2.6.31-00292-gb0390e2". Plus a small tweak to the non-auto-localversion naming: to make the uname output more clear when people disable the auto-localversion option: Linux europe 2.6.31+ #2 SMP Tue Oct 6 19:26:58 CEST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux versus the inaccurate: Linux europe 2.6.31 #2 SMP Tue Oct 6 19:26:58 CEST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux string which we emit today. Ingo -- 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/