From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267967AbUIJVym (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:54:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267953AbUIJVym (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:54:42 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:30913 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268037AbUIJVyK (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:54:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:53:53 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Christoph Hellwig , sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file Message-ID: <20040910215353.GO5414@waste.org> References: <20040830151405.GA18836@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040830151405.GA18836@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 05:14:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The're an very interesting patch in the Debian tree still from the time > where Herbert Xu mentioned it, it allows creating a file .extraversion > in the toplevel kernel directory and the Makefile will set EXTRAVERSION > to it's contents. This has the nice advantage of keeping an > extraversion pre-tree instead of having to patch the Makefile and > getting rejects everytime you pull a new tree (or BK refuses to touch > the Makefile). > > The only thing I'm not fully comfortable is the .extraversion name, I > think I'd prefer a user-visible name. > > Any other comments on this one? (catching up) Consider this approach as a more flexible alternative: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=oxymoron+patch+names&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=fa.jif8l5v.1b049jd%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1 -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.