Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:02 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > 
> > > If you're using the kernel-of-they-day, you're probably using git, and
> > > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y should be mandatory.
> > 
> > I sure hope it never becomes mandatory, I despise that thing.  I don't
> > even do -rc tags.  .nn is .nn until baked and nn.1 appears.
> 
> If you're a git user that changes kernels frequently, then enabling 
> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is _really_ convenient when you learn to use it.
> 
> This is quite common for me:
> 
> 	gitk v$(uname -r)..
> 
> and it works exactly due to CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO (and because git is 
> rather good at figuring out version numbers). It's a great way to say 
> "ok, what is in my git tree that I'm not actually running right now".
> 
> Another case where CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is very useful is when you're 
> noticing some new broken behavior, but it took you a while to notice. 
> You've rebooted several times since, but you know it worked last Tuesday. 
> What do you do?
> 
> The thing to do is
> 
> 	grep "Linux version" /var/log/messages*
> 
> and figure out what the good version was, and then do 
> 
> 	git bisect start
> 	git bisect good ..that-version..
> 	git bisect bad v$(uname -r)
> 
> and off you go. This is _very_ convenient if you are working with some 
> "random git kernel of the day" like I am (and like hopefully others are 
> too, in order to get test coverage).

That's why it irritates me.  I build/test a lot, and do the occasional
bisection, which makes a mess in /boot and /lib/modules.  I use a quilt
stack of git pull diffs as reference/rummage points.  Awkward maybe, but
effective (so no need for autoversion), and no mess.

	-Mike

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