From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755863AbZE2HtU (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 03:49:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754297AbZE2HtK (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 03:49:10 -0400 Received: from mtagate7.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.156]:58938 "EHLO mtagate7.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753862AbZE2HtJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 03:49:09 -0400 From: Christian =?iso-8859-15?q?Borntr=E4ger?= Organization: IBM To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add localversion to avoid confusion and conflicts Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:48:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.30-rc6-self-00072-g279e677-dirty; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) Cc: Avi Kivity , Ingo Molnar , LKML , KVM list References: <1243581494.3212.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1243581494.3212.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905290948.34482.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 09:18:14 schrieb Jaswinder Singh Rajput: > Adding localversion avoids confusion in kernel images : > > like Linux version 2.6.30-rc7 does not tell whether it is linus or kvm > kernel. > > By adding localversion it tells : > > Linux version 2.6.30-rc7-kvm , any doubt ;-) > I am inspired by Ingo's -tip, I am sure Ingo will tell more advantages, > if these are not enough :-) [...] > diff --git a/localversion-kvm b/localversion-kvm > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..d969ff0 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/localversion-kvm > @@ -0,0 +1 @@ > +-kvm NAK from my side. If you need a distinction, there is always CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO. If you need this kind of prefix, there is always CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. Christian