From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:08:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:07:56 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:39815 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:07:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20011010.170805.35468036.davem@redhat.com> To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: rudi@sluijtman.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] .version, newversion in Makefile From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011011010032.H17670@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200110102122.f9ALMx424058@nerys.ehv.lx> <20011011010032.H17670@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Russell King Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:00:32 +0100 On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:22:59PM +0200, Rudi Sluijtman wrote: > Due to a change in the main Makefile the .version file is overwritten > by a new empty one since at least 2.4.10-pre12, so the version becomes > or remains 1 after each recompile. There is a patch in -ac to fix this. I've also independantly just sent Linus a patch to fix this. I was not aware of the -ac fix, sorry. Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com