From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751003AbcBKPxN (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:53:13 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34412 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750771AbcBKPxM (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:53:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld-version: Drop the 4th and 5th version components To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" References: Cc: Ralf Baechle , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , James Hogan , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <56BCAE65.5060103@suse.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:53:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2016-02-11 15:25, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > ... making upstream development binutils snapshots work as expected, > e.g.: > > $ mips64el-linux-ld --version > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303 > [...] > $ > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki fwiw, Acked-by: Michal Marek > NB comments in scripts/Kbuild.include around `ld-version' have not been > accordingly updated in the course of changes made to `ld-version.sh' and > they still need such an update, unless we right-shift the version code > calculated back by 4 decimal digits, which I hesitated doing here for > simplicity. What was the original reason to add the 4th and 5th > components? No idea, but I don't think we will ever need this level of detail. So yes, the script and its only in-tree user could be updated to divide the numbers by 10000. Michal