Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758238AbZJFS6D (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:58:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757111AbZJFS6C (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:58:02 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:39283 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755994AbZJFS6B (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:58:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Linus Torvalds cc: Stefan Richter , Frans Pop , mingo@elte.hu, hohndel@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> <200910061909.35878.elendil@planet.nl> <4ACB7F9C.9090606@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 30 On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: > >> Frans Pop wrote: >>> Developers are supposed to be able to take care of themselves; >> >> _People who build kernels from sources which differ from releases_ are >> supposed to take care of themselves. > > Yes. If you compile a random development kernel, you'd better then not > come and whine to developers about how you can't tell which version it is. > Especially when we do have things like CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO exactly > for this case. > > But it's possible that people really just weren't aware of that whole > LOCALVERSION_AUTO thing. I will say that I was not aware of it, and I've been using kernel.org kernels for many years. I'm glad to see it there. enabling it by default would probably be a very good thing. David Lang -- 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/