Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751712Ab0DLMx2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:53:28 -0400 Received: from DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-8.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.37]:57143 "EHLO dmz-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750878Ab0DLMx1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:53:27 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 300 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:53:26 EDT X-AuditID: 12074425-b7d00ae000002295-70-4bc31698986f Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Theodore Tso In-Reply-To: <33355.71.245.98.113.1271040992.squirrel@www.xenotime.net> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:48:14 -0400 Cc: "Thomas Gleixner" , "Pavel Machek" , "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "Alexey Dobriyan" , "kernel list" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> <20100411201426.GC25294@elf.ucw.cz> <33355.71.245.98.113.1271040992.squirrel@www.xenotime.net> To: rdunlap@xenotime.net X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 18 On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:56 PM, rdunlap@xenotime.net wrote: > > So what do you suggest? If the "magic" strings contain "-dirty ", > then ignore that and the 2 preceding hyphen-separated fields? I have a standard local patch that I've been carrying for I-don't-know-how-long which just nukes the "-dirty" suffix, which I needed because make-kpkg modifies some kernel build files, so the version string would always have -dirty. It's not hard to fix... -- Ted -- 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/