Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

[Bill Davidsen]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:

	[...snip...]

> > I think it will confuse scripts which expect something local in the 4th 
> > field. I confess that I have such, and that field is turned into a 
> > directory name during builds, so test results are saved in a proper 
> > place. I think vendors and people who care will just keep three digits, 
> > and those who want the last can make their EXTRAVERSION
> >    2.Joes_Bar_&_Grill_486
> > or whatever is needed.
> 
> There's also the LOCALVERSION that can be set in the config file.  I've 
> switched to using that, since it means one less kernel patch to port.

I have to see what that generates. The problem is LOCALVERSION and current
use of both 3 and 4 field kernel versions. You need a smarter script to
handle that.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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