From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751093AbbCSVUT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:20:19 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:11176 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbbCSVUQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:20:16 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,432,1422950400"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="682740365" Message-ID: <1426800014.2577.56.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: Update version number reference From: Jeff Kirsher To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Yaowei Bai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:20:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20150319151158.55f42b3b@lwn.net> References: <1424838176-12614-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20150319151158.55f42b3b@lwn.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-N1M/cIma/D3DUspzs9hZ" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-4.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-N1M/cIma/D3DUspzs9hZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 15:11 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:22:56 -0800 > Jeff Kirsher wrote: >=20 > > When 4.0 is released, the README should reflect the new numbering. >=20 > OK, I've applied this because it came in first. There were two other > contenders, from Yaowei Bai and Josh Poimbeuf (copied) that all did > mostly the same thing, but Josh was trying to make it > version-independent.=20 >=20 > May I point something out, though? All three of you did something > like: >=20 > - bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - > + bzip2 -dc linux-4.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - >=20 > without noticing the fact that .bz2 files haven't been available from > kernel.org for a while. Much less that installation from tarballs > must > be getting rare, and people shouldn't put them in /usr/src in any > case. >=20 > In other words, this file is pretty crufty in quite a few ways that > just > tweaking the version number will not fix. Given enough time I'll try > to > take a swing at it, but if anybody wants to bring it into the current > era, that would be most welcome. I am slammed with Intel wired Ethernet patches currently, so I do not mind if someone else wants to wants to take the lead on this. I like the idea of making this version agnostic so that this type of modification does not need to be made anytime a major version change is made. --=-N1M/cIma/D3DUspzs9hZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCgAGBQJVCz2OAAoJEOVv75VaS+3O7PAP/jAPrKwKp3nvxTSv3NGcYVrb e6FQfKAGUyJtXcbpjcIS/iag6YI80h8U58ZnLCAYsgOTL5LTIaG4dHUllrmiJn5L FCdPYuYJR2HFQUJgrSzNQ7F1UC93Tye0Q8IJaAykmbv73kB+OOHi15lVXwCv4wNq wX3dKyagE3Im8jVRKlvj5Xisa5CeE3pmzUozzWgGz6eI7kYPzCc4p40ekvV9DEy0 v2jSdmJ5BpKZb0FDFpx0XteK6UoDdVEtHM0UVrioQacyX3gI+OsOlY0OyLojrJkH aSxyTtBOU5PbcGEBM45d0ttCNPHjKcqrkySDiTnQ775AEQPX/nDU222gfCjZdNc9 nJIWKnpGvy2YLI+iPHWb8GVzF7HM67Xr0LTbkU1IPcH1xYwg0MukTO9NUrw/n6uG PA15g1AZpDMesQWyYGJdIsaLhr128pKPofUa9AN5GGPgACa+wYcg5pLMrkBBOptI TKf/CfadzR9jqm2ojbaZdygSm9yAsu2dhylqTCU7MlaEkNbMIKGpJz8AnmBU4DCI blGoSCF30LdOezxV8NTA8ygxPdHB2fq/weQqrHLrw5UPUbxuQFBupXBL32poaQa+ Yav192HUyiOJ5uWTBmfV/St+Dw+TcMLTirBsFaAsnuPrwTk0BGkHK5ZZNgHRs3LQ zpui0kaMjmagMjmMjUZi =Wrqe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-N1M/cIma/D3DUspzs9hZ--