From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ?
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:09:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110710160906.952bb38a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107110000280.2818@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi
>
> If the plan is that the new kernel is going to be 3.0 (3.x) and the
> -stable kernels then get to tack on a third digit with EXTRAVERSION, then
> it seems to me that the main Makefile should get rid of SUBLEVEL - or?
>
> Or is the plan to ditch EXTRAVERSION for -stable kernels and have them use
> SUBLEVEL instead?
>
> There are a few scripts that need fixing if SUBLEVEL goes the way of the
> Dodo, but I didn't want to start fixing those without a clear indication
> of whether or not SUBLEVEL is going to/should die.
>
> So what's going to happen to SUBLEVEL/EXTRAVERSION?
I cannot answer this, but I'd certainly like to see a clear answer
since I also have several scripts that need such attention.
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-10 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 22:07 Jesper Juhl
2011-07-10 23:09 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2011-07-10 23:26 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-07-13 21:53 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-07-15 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-17 16:10 ` Jesper Juhl
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