Re: has something changed recently involving adding the git versionstring?

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Fri Dec 01 2006 - 08:31:06 EST


On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> has there been a change in the last few days involving whether the
> kernel option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO appends the first part of
> $(git rev-parse HEAD) to the kernel uname?
>
> i could have *sworn* that, only a few days ago, i could configure
> and build a new kernel with a uname release of something like
> "2.6.19-rday-ge0f1..." now, though, all i get is "2.6.19-rday".
> and that affects the installed /lib/modules/ directory name as well.
>
> am i just hallucinating again?
>
> rday

duh. never mind, i just noticed the "git name-rev --tags HEAD" check
in "setlocalversion" for non-release trees. sorry. carry on.

rday
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