Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933232AbZJFVVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933172AbZJFVVj (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:21:39 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:33614 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933167AbZJFVVj (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:21:39 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4ACBB446.2010402@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:19:02 +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: Ingo Molnar CC: Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , 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> <20091006164028.GA23305@elte.hu> <20091006181218.GD24677@mit.edu> <20091006182448.GB25732@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20091006182448.GB25732@elte.hu> 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: 842 Lines: 23 Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] > 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. It's not the string which is inaccurate. To assume that the version string which is embedded into the kernel image fully describes the kernel is inaccurate. :-) The + suffix is an improvement in the sense that it asserts that this kernel is not of a specific version... -- 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/