From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 11:01:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010506110133.K3988@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105060334390.1549-100000@asdf.capslock.lan> <3437.989135106@ocs3.ocs-net> <20010506101217.H3988@marowsky-bree.de> <20010506013605.C31385@thune.mrc-home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010506013605.C31385@thune.mrc-home.com>; from "Mike Castle" on 2001-05-06T01:36:05
On 2001-05-06T01:36:05,
Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com> said:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:12:17AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> > You assign a new EXTRAVERSION to the new kernel you are building, and keep the
> > old kernel at the old name.
>
> Except that some patches (ie, RAID, -ac) use EXTRAVERSION.
So? You can still set EXTRAVERSION to anything you like. It is just an
identifier for the admin, and not used for anything inside the kernel.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. -- J. Yahl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-06 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-06 7:15 [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r Keith Owens
2001-05-06 7:35 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-06 7:45 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-06 8:12 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2001-05-06 8:36 ` Mike Castle
2001-05-06 9:01 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2001-05-06 17:08 ` Russell King
2001-05-06 9:16 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-07 17:29 ` Pavel Roskin
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