From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270187AbTGMJK7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:10:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270188AbTGMJK7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:10:59 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:51213 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270187AbTGMJK6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:10:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:25:43 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrey Borzenkov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 and devfs versioning Message-ID: <20030713102543.B24901@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307131132.46522.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200307131132.46522.arvidjaar@mail.ru>; from arvidjaar@mail.ru on Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:32:46AM +0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:32:46AM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > {pts/2}% dmesg | head -1 > Linux version 2.5.75-1borsmp ... > > {pts/2}% dmesg | grep devfs > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2575-1borsmp ro root=345 devfs=mount > devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) > > well, this is not quite correct to put it mildly. It has been so much changed > that IMHO it needs own version just to avoid confusion. Just rip out the whole printk then. Componentes that are maintained inside the kernel tree don't need version numbers.