From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld-version: Drop the 4th and 5th version components
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:53:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BCAE65.5060103@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1602111359390.15885@tp.orcam.me.uk>
On 2016-02-11 15:25, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> ... making upstream development binutils snapshots work as expected,
> e.g.:
>
> $ mips64el-linux-ld --version
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303
> [...]
> $
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
fwiw, Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> NB comments in scripts/Kbuild.include around `ld-version' have not been
> accordingly updated in the course of changes made to `ld-version.sh' and
> they still need such an update, unless we right-shift the version code
> calculated back by 4 decimal digits, which I hesitated doing here for
> simplicity. What was the original reason to add the 4th and 5th
> components?
No idea, but I don't think we will ever need this level of detail. So
yes, the script and its only in-tree user could be updated to divide the
numbers by 10000.
Michal
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-11 14:25 [PATCH] ld-version: Drop the 4th and 5th version components Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-02-11 14:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-02-11 15:53 ` Michal Marek [this message]
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