From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:47:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
LOCALVERSION_AUTO has nasty interaction with modules, warn about it.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index eb77e8c..5d33072 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ config LOCALVERSION
config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
- default y
help
This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
@@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
+ Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will
+ not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules"
+ will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible
+ to insert into old kernel.
+
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next reply other threads:[~2010-04-11 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-11 16:47 Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-04-12 18:51 ` LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-11 18:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-04-11 20:14 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-11 22:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-12 1:20 ` rdunlap
2010-04-12 2:56 ` rdunlap
2010-04-12 3:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-12 12:48 ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-12 13:14 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-12 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
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