Re: [PATCH 1/3] linux-yocto: restoring LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.0"

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 08:53 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 01:20 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb
> >> index 44f1ebe..5d9871f 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb
> >> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ KMACHINE_qemuarm  = "yocto/standard/arm-versatile-926ejs"
> >>  KBRANCH = ${KMACHINE}
> >>  KMETA = meta
> >>
> >> -LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.0.1"
> >> +LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.0"
> >>  LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-yocto-${LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE}"
> >>
> >>  SRCREV_machine_qemuarm = "36b4cdddcafc711f0ec9ad97882f23a6443c61b2"
> >
> > That's going to cause PV to go backwards, right?  If you're going to do
> > that then you probably ought to consider bumping PE to retain
> > monotonicity.
> 
> Indeed. I always just think of LINUX_VERSION as yet another package internal
> variable (from non-bitbake experience), so tweaking it has no impact
> on this sort
> of thing.
> 
> I can look into changing the epoch .. but not until Monday or later in
> the weekend.

I'm not 100% convinced that this is a good idea. I'd really prefer the
kernel accurately reflected the version it was. Can we not do:

PREFERRRED_VERSION_xxx = "3.0%"

to get around the preferred version issues?

Cheers,

Richard