Messages in this thread | | | From | Frodo Looijaard <> | Subject | Re: patch names hack | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:35:17 +0100 (CET) |
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Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > >=20 > > > And simply being able to build 2.2.x and 2.2.x+foo on the same machine > > > without having them overwrite each other's modules should be worth it = > by > > > itself for developers.=20 > >=20 > > Can't you already do this since EXTRAVERSION is still in the Makefile = > and > > all the associated scripts??? I know that I had a 2.2.2 and a 2.2.2-ac7 > > built with separate module directories, etc.=20 > > The patch names hack keeps each extra > version component in a separate file (along with its description) so there > are never rejects.
Yet another approach is to encode the kernel compile number in the kernel name. This only requires a very, very minor patch. I have described how you can do this some time ago; you can find it at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/howto.html Once, I wanted to make a mini-HOWTO of this document, but it was deemed that the subject was not interesting enough for that by the mini-HOWTO maintainer. He was probably right.
Good luck, Frodo
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