Re: [stable] Linux 3.0.2

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:11:43AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>
>> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> > index f124b18..794fa28 100644
>> > --- a/Makefile
>> > +++ b/Makefile
>> > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>> >  VERSION = 3
>> >  PATCHLEVEL = 0
>> > -SUBLEVEL = 1
>> > +SUBLEVEL = 2
>> >  EXTRAVERSION =
>>
>> Isn't it time we remove that EXTRAVERSION from the stable kernels now that
>> they are using SUBLEVEL ?
>
> It can be left empty here, it's still used a lot when doing specific builds
> that need to embed a variant name (make bzImage modules EXTRAVERSION=xxx).

Distros still use it as well.  We use it to add in the RPM release number.

josh
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