From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759156AbWLANag (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:30:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031342AbWLANag (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:30:36 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:25524 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759156AbWLANaf (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:30:35 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 74.109.98.100 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:27:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: has something changed recently involving adding the git version string? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > has there been a change in the last few days involving whether the > kernel option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO appends the first part of > $(git rev-parse HEAD) to the kernel uname? > > i could have *sworn* that, only a few days ago, i could configure > and build a new kernel with a uname release of something like > "2.6.19-rday-ge0f1..." now, though, all i get is "2.6.19-rday". > and that affects the installed /lib/modules/ directory name as well. > > am i just hallucinating again? > > rday duh. never mind, i just noticed the "git name-rev --tags HEAD" check in "setlocalversion" for non-release trees. sorry. carry on. rday