Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:34 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: .version keeps being updated |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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