From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning of tree
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:39:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098261542.6263.4.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41762058.3000304@pobox.com>
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:22, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi Linus !
> >
> > After you tag a "release" tree in bk, could you bump the version number
> > right away, with eventually some junk in EXTRAVERSION like "-devel" ?
> >
> > It's quite painful to have a module dir name clash between the "clean"
> > final tree and whatever dev stuff we are testing out of bk ... it's fine
> > once you go to -rc1, but in the meantime, it's really annoying.
>
> echo "-bk" > localversion
> make
>
> You can do it just as easily as anyone else :)
Of course I can, and of course I keep forgetting... :) And a bunch of ppl
are apparently having the same problem :) Not even counting a guy this
morning reporting me of "problems with 2.6.9" while he was actually using
the bk top of tree from yesterday night...
But well, it's up to Linus :) I just though it would be convenient ...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 6:49 Versioning of tree Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20 7:22 ` Len Brown
2004-10-20 14:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 1:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-21 15:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-21 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 16:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 23:03 ` kbuild (was Re: Versioning of tree) Jeff Garzik
2004-10-30 23:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-25 23:47 ` Versioning of tree Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 11:49 ` David Vrabel
2004-10-26 12:26 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 12:58 ` David Vrabel
2004-10-26 19:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-26 18:04 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 19:11 ` Ian Campbell
2004-10-27 8:38 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-27 11:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-20 8:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-20 8:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-20 10:36 ` Måns Rullgård
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2004-10-20 18:27 Chuck Ebbert
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