From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261664AbVCJF4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:56:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261390AbVCJFnp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:43:45 -0500 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:43917 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261710AbVCJFjg (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:39:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:40:11 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Omkhar Arasaratnam , Linux Kernel list , tgall@us.ibm.com, antonb@au1.ibm.com Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64 Message-ID: <20050310054011.GA8287@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Omkhar Arasaratnam , Linux Kernel list , tgall@us.ibm.com, antonb@au1.ibm.com References: <422FA817.4060400@ca.ibm.com> <1110420620.32525.145.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:25:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or > > extraversion in bk just after a release ? I know I already ask and it > > degenerated into a flamefest, and I don't know if that is specifically > > the case now, but I keep getting report of people saying "I have a bug > > in 2.6.xx" while in fact, they have some kind of bk clone of sometime > > after 2.6.xx... > > The answer is the same: I'd still like to have somebody (preferably Sam) > who is comfortable with all the build scripts get a revision-control- > specific version at build-time, so that BK users would get the top-of-tree > key value, and other people could get some CVS revision or something. I have a patch somewhere in my inbox, and got one from Ryan yesterday also. I will see if I during the weekend find some time to look at it. Sam