Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

Frans Pop
2009-10-06T17:23:39Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - but if it is _not_ set, we'll still try to get a version from the
> underlying SCM (we actually support git, hg and SVN right now, even if
> some comments may say "git only"), and if the underlying SCM says it
> has a local version, we append just "+", so you get a version number
> like
>
> 2.6.32-rc3+

Doesn't this leave users of the git snapshot tarballs in the cold?
That seems a serious disadvantage as different users will get different
versions (and thus report different versions in bug reports).

The advantage of an -rc0 in the Makefile is that everybody gets it.