Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757192Ab1E3OnS (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 10:43:18 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:33669 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757063Ab1E3OnQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 10:43:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=vrfy.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KYadVhQYT+frsvO8gJjCM8iRp0trBRAYk3dD4bNEGBwOtZcvC3qVGAFdiQbGd56vca D9i7JELxhXr3byKX3TDHLGQKtCwsuNiuHvDL/Q57RvoKo/mCBjkYKER+DOqp/Os0EOD9 cxGs4yB9DjewjN0L9xefwycazi+MwQgGpONqE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306763923-11892-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> References: <1306763923-11892-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 16:43:01 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: Handle X.Y kernel versions To: Michal Marek Cc: Jon Masters , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 21 On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 15:58, Michal Marek wrote: > What a stupid check. > Jon, could you please apply this patch and release a new > module-init-tools?  Depmod otherwise fails when building a kernel with > version 3.0 (without the third number). > > Linus, I'm affraid this ruins the plan for Linux 3.0. Except if you want > to force users to upgrade module-init-tools, with the excuse that 3.0 > is a huge step forward and breakage has to be expected ;-). Maybe get rid of the entire check? We could remove the (not too useful) 'epoch' some day and just increase the major number with every release and leave Greg both remaining digits :) Kay -- 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/