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SubjectRe: .version keeps being updated
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to
> > > make developers angry pretty quickly.
> >
> > That might motivate them to fix it ;)
>
> Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count entirely?

I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install
that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing `uname -a'
with $TOPDIR/.version.
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