Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:34:19 +0900
From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>,
       Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic - two for the price of one - No thanks
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:18:42PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> > >> I already have my:
> > >>  VERSION = 2
> > >>  PATCHLEVEL = 6
> > >>  SUBLEVEL = 35
> > >> -EXTRAVERSION = -rc2
> > >> +EXTRAVERSION = -rc2-my_tree
> > >>
> > > 
> > > You shouldn't be using EXTRAVERSION for this purpose, you should be 
> > > passing LOCALVERSION=my_tree to make.
> > > 
> > 
> > That will not work because the way I run make is out of my control. Every
> > one in the working group has his system. The Makefile is part of the
> > public git tree, so every one will get the same identification without
> > any confusion with Vanilla kernel, or what was compiled.
> > 
> 
> If everyone using that tree wants the same version string for that kernel, 
> use CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-my_tree" in your .config and use "make 
> LOCALVERSION=".
> 
Or just distribute a localversion-my_tree file in the top-level directory
like other trees do. This doesn't strike me as a particularly significant
problem.
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