From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
G@ucw.cz, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:18:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530910100518j53965ea2kda5ed9d81ee55e7b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091010120950.GD1811@ucw.cz>
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Tue 2009-10-06 22:31:19, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> >
>> > Why don't you just have the kernel version Linux-commitid?
>> >
>> > why keep up the pretense that the 2.6.xx bit means anything outside of release?
>> >
>> > You could just have the tarball generation scripts make it into a 2.6.31 but
>> > for everyone else we never see it.
>>
>> The tarball generation scripts for the daily snapshots already set
>> EXTRAVERSION to -git15, -git16, etc.
>>
>> So the problem seems to be localized to those users/developers who are
>> smart enough to use git, and dumb enough not to set
>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO. So big of a set this actually is, I can't
>> say. Do we have any statistics about how many bug reporters make this
>> mistake?
>
> I admit -- I did not know about LOCALVERSION_AUTO, and many times
> wished -rc0 would be labeled as such.
>
> Now...perhaps LOCALVERSION_AUTO should not be option? Just hardwire it
> to Y? (But that still does not solve systems when someone, probably
> me, did rm -rf .git, for space and speed reasons).
Why is LOCALVERSION_AUTO part of the config file? Shouldn't it be on
the Makefile? Then it's easy for people to override it if they want.
And it's also easy for packagers, for whatever wicked reasons.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-10 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 131+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 0:44 Linus Torvalds
2009-10-05 18:55 ` James Cloos
2009-10-06 1:57 ` Len Brown
2009-10-06 2:51 ` Dirk Hohndel
2009-10-06 14:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 14:38 ` Dirk Hohndel
2009-10-06 15:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 15:34 ` Dirk Hohndel
2009-10-06 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <4ACBB7D7.10207@urpla.net>
2009-10-06 22:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:36 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-07 1:09 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-07 5:56 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 14:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 15:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 15:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 16:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 18:12 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-06 18:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 21:19 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-06 17:15 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-06 18:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 17:22 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 18:29 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-07 0:51 ` Florian Mickler
2009-10-06 17:35 ` [patch] kbuild: Improve version string logic Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 18:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-06 18:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 18:55 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-06 19:03 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-06 19:45 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 19:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-06 20:25 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-07 2:43 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-12 19:57 ` [PATCH, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 22:04 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-13 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-13 17:51 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-13 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-13 23:59 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-14 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-14 7:24 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-14 7:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-14 7:42 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-14 23:43 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-15 7:37 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-15 14:13 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-15 20:38 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-15 21:01 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-15 9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-15 14:42 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-15 20:45 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-15 8:01 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-15 8:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-14 21:55 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-13 2:00 ` David Rientjes
2009-10-13 7:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-13 7:59 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-07 17:18 ` [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic - two for the price of one - No thanks Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-07 19:45 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-08 5:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 6:18 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-08 6:34 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-08 6:39 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 7:16 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 7:21 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-08 7:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 7:32 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-08 7:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 9:17 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-08 6:37 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 8:31 ` kbuild: Fix the breakage caused by "improve version string logic" Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 9:13 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-08 10:14 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-08 10:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-09 6:55 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-09 7:54 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-09 8:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-06 17:40 ` Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Len Brown
2009-10-06 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-07 22:33 ` Len Brown
2009-10-06 17:45 ` Dirk Hohndel
2009-10-06 19:22 ` Joel Becker
[not found] ` <4ACB77ED.6060104@grm.uci.cu>
2009-10-06 18:00 ` Herlin R. Matos Lastres
2009-10-15 15:51 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 17:09 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 17:34 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-06 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 18:56 ` david
2009-10-06 18:23 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 19:23 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-06 17:44 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-06 18:14 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-06 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:40 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 19:37 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-07 21:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-10-08 15:20 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-06 15:29 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-06 17:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 17:20 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-06 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-06 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-07 1:22 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-07 2:31 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-07 2:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-10 12:09 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-10 12:18 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2009-10-07 3:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-07 3:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-07 13:52 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-07 14:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-07 17:44 ` david
2009-10-07 18:13 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-07 4:02 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-10-07 10:41 ` 2.6.32-rc3: floating-point build failure (undefined reference to `__udivdi3' in menu governor) Andreas Mohr
2009-10-07 14:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-07 17:34 ` Andreas Mohr
2009-10-07 17:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-07 17:45 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-10-09 16:01 ` Andreas Mohr
2009-10-09 16:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-09 17:08 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-10-09 17:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
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