From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755769Ab2LOLda (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:33:30 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58482 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751588Ab2LOLd3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:33:29 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:33:18 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oliver Hartkopp , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux 3.8-merge version information Message-ID: <20121215113318.GA17019@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <50C72FCC.8010401@hartkopp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! On Tue 2012-12-11 10:57:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > > As the automatically generated git version information is misleading in the > > merge window, name the kernel in the merge window as 3.8-merge . > > This really doesn't help. Well, I'd say it helps in the common case. > 90% of the commits during the merge window wouldn't be based on that > Makefile change anyway, but on some much older version. So when > bisecting, for example, you'll see Makefiles with much older version > numbers, even though the commits got merged into the 3.8 merge > window. No, it does not solve bisect, but at least you get something reasonable in the boot menu...? > Also, we have code to generate the version number automatically. In > particular, I encourage people to use git trees and > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y, because then your /var/log/messages (and > uname -r) will contain the exact git version of your kernel. So when > you see something like > > Linux version 3.7.0-rc8-00041-gcaf491916b1c Problem is that CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO adds a lot of time to build. Like... making "empty" build twice as slow. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html