From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: jlmales@yahoo.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question Regarding "EXTRAVERSION" Specification
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:01:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4708.1023368487@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 2002 03:09:29 -0400." <20020606030929.460bec3e.jlmales@softhome.net>
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 03:09:29 -0400,
"John L. Males" <jlmales@softhome.net> wrote:
>***** Please note I am not on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Please
>be so kind as to BCC copy me in on any reply to this inquiry. Thanks
>The questions are:
>
> 1) Is there a specification that states the maximum length that the
>"EXTRAVERSION" string may be?
The total length $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
must not exceed 64 characters. Break that limit and you get garbage in
uname -r.
> 2) Does the Kernel make/build process enforce any specified limit of
>(1) above?
kbuild 2.5 enforces the limit, the existing kernel build code does not.
I sent a patch to Linus four times back in the 2.4.15 days, he
completely ignored it. Linus does not care about kernel build
problems.
I will dig out the patch and send it to Marcelo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-06 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-06 7:09 John L. Males
2002-06-06 13:01 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-06-06 15:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-06 16:48 John L. Males
2002-06-06 17:12 ` John L. Males
2002-06-06 16:54 John L. Males
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