Re: Linux 2.6.29

Mike Galbraith
2009-03-27T15:46:31Z

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:53 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> > > This obviously starts the merge window for 2.6.30, although as usual,
> > > I'll probably wait a day or two before I start actively merging.
> >
> > It would be very nice, if you could start with a commit to Makefile, that
> > reflects the new series: e.g.:
> >
> > VERSION = 2
> > PATCHLEVEL = 6
> > SUBLEVEL = 30
> > EXTRAVERSION = -pre
> >
> > -pre for preparing state.
>
> If you're using the kernel-of-they-day, you're probably using git, and
> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y should be mandatory.

I sure hope it never becomes mandatory, I despise that thing. I don't
even do -rc tags. .nn is .nn until baked and nn.1 appears.

(would be nice if baked were immediately handed to stable .nn.0 instead
of being in limbo for a bit, but I don't drive the cart, just tag along
behind [w. shovel];)

-Mike