Re: Versioning of tree

Linus Torvalds
2004-10-20T14:42:39Z

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Len Brown wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 02:49, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > After you tag a "release" tree in bk, could you bump the version
> > number right away, with eventually some junk in EXTRAVERSION like
> > "-devel" ?
>
> I'd find this to be really helpful too. There has been this period
> between, say, 2.6.9 and 2.6.10-whatever where my build/install scripts
> scribble over my "reference" kernels.

Personally, I much rather go the way we have gone, because I don't care
about module versioning nearly as much as I care about bug-report
versioning. And if I hear about a bug with 2.6.10-rc1, I want to know that
it really is at _least_ 2.6.10-rc1, if you see what I mean..

Now, personally, I'd actually like to know the exact top-of-tree
changeset, so I've considered having something that saves that one away,
but then we'd need to do something about non-BK users (make the nightly
snapshots squirrell it away somewhere too). That would solve both the
module versioning _and_ the bug-report issue.

So if somebody comes up with a build script that generates that kind of
extra-version automatically, I'm more receptive. But I don't want to muck
with the version manually in a way that I think is the wrong way around..

Linus