From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux v2.4.19
Date: 7 Aug 2002 01:54:33 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aipukp$9bg$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1028413405.1761.38.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
In article <1028413405.1761.38.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
| On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 22:00, Ged Haywood wrote:
| > Hi there,
| >
| > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
| >
| > > Haven't the tarballs usuaully been archived as 'linux/' instead of
| > > 'linux-2.4.19/' ?
| >
| > Absolutely not. Many systems have a symlink 'linux' to the current
| > kernel tree, which is a directory e.g. 'linux-2.2.16'. If the tarball
|
| Kernels until recently did always unpack into linux/. Linus changed and
| I'm happy Marcelo has followed suit, its much more sensible the new way
Let's hope the major fix trees like -aa and -ac follow the convention. I
have no problem with the change (since I keep my stuff that way) but I
hope it is pervasive.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-03 0:15 Linux v2.4.19 Marcelo Tosatti
2002-08-03 11:45 ` Harald Dunkel
2002-08-03 12:18 ` Harald Dunkel
2002-08-03 12:32 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-03 12:40 ` Harald Dunkel
2002-08-05 18:00 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-03 19:27 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-08-03 21:00 ` Ged Haywood
2002-08-03 22:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 1:54 ` bill davidsen [this message]
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