Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754198Ab0FHHQq (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 03:16:46 -0400 Received: from daytona.panasas.com ([67.152.220.89]:37265 "EHLO daytona.int.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752979Ab0FHHQn (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 03:16:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4C0DEE57.1070505@panasas.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:16:39 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mundt CC: David Rientjes , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Frans Pop , Dirk Hohndel , Len Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic - two for the price of one - No thanks References: <20091006153632.GA29795@elte.hu> <20091006173508.GA4786@elte.hu> <20091012195733.GA7351@elte.hu> <4C0D29DE.6050602@panasas.com> <4C0DDAA6.8080002@panasas.com> <20100608063419.GF6376@linux-sh.org> <4C0DE5AC.1090204@panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <4C0DE5AC.1090204@panasas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jun 2010 07:16:42.0582 (UTC) FILETIME=[8BA73760:01CB06DA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1877 Lines: 58 On 06/08/2010 09:39 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 06/08/2010 09:34 AM, Paul Mundt wrote: >> 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. > I can't manage to work this out. Here is what I did please, what did I do wrong: [my-tree] $ git checkout v2.6.35-rc2 [my-tree] $ touch localversion-my_tree [my-tree] $ git add localversion-my_tree; git commit; # ... [my-tree] $ make oldconfig [my-tree] $ make At my make install I still get DEPMOD 2.6.35-rc2+ What else to do? Thanks Boaz > OK That one is actually a solution. I'll try that ASAP. If it works as expected > it's perfect. Even better than before > > Thanks > Boaz -- 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/