From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 05:16:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 05:16:13 -0500 Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.38]:38417 "EHLO finch-post-10.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 05:16:01 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk (Nick Holloway) Newsgroups: list.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions Date: 6 Jan 2001 10:15:53 -0000 Organization: Alfie's Internet Node Message-ID: <936r8p$3ns$1@alfie.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <862569CB.0070DDEE.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #119 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In <862569CB.0070DDEE.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> Wayne.Brown@altec.com writes: > Either I'm blind, or especially dense today, or both (quite possible :-) but I > don't see any reference in patch-kernel to the extra version information. > EXTRAVERSION is defined in the kernel Makefile, and I tried using the script > found in the 2.4.0-test1 source like this: > > patch-kernel /usr/src/linux /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test-kernels > > but the test-2 and following patches are not applied. All I get is "Current > kernel version is 2.4.0." What am I missing? The distributed version of patch-kernel has only ever known about the "standard" progression x.y.z => x.y.z+1. This all gets horribly broken when Linus gets imaginative with his kernel numbering. I have said before that I thought this was OK, because the people that need to cope with the EXTRAVERSION guff are people on the development branch, and should be able to patch the kernel themselves. The main users of patch-kernel are less experienced people. However, this does conflict with the aim of getting users into testing kernels late in the development branch cycle. It also affects people like me who are lazy. I don't think that getting the kernel version to support the naming scheme du-jour will work, as this would require Linus to update patch-kernel when he dreams up a new scheme -- and Linus is the one person I'm fairly sure does not use it! For myself, I have a version of patch-kernel that does know how to deal with the wacky naming versions (because I'm lazy). In future I'll make this available to anyone that wants to download it for their own use, but I won't push to get it included. A (temporary) location for the current version is: http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/download/patch-kernel -- `O O' | Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk // ^ \\ | http://www.pyrites.org.uk/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/