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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld-version: Drop the 4th and 5th version components
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
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From:   Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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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