Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

Theodore Tso
2009-10-07T02:32:15Z

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> Why don't you just have the kernel version Linux-commitid?
>
> why keep up the pretense that the 2.6.xx bit means anything outside of release?
>
> You could just have the tarball generation scripts make it into a 2.6.31 but
> for everyone else we never see it.

The tarball generation scripts for the daily snapshots already set
EXTRAVERSION to -git15, -git16, etc.

So the problem seems to be localized to those users/developers who are
smart enough to use git, and dumb enough not to set
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO. So big of a set this actually is, I can't
say. Do we have any statistics about how many bug reporters make this
mistake?

- Ted