Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:44:43 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Complaint about recent LINUX_VERSION_CODEs |
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
> The patches could be still have been named as the are now, but every > full kernel release (when a whole tarball is released) whould have a > unique LINUX_VERSION_CODE. All of 2.3.99-preX (9 kernels representing > 2.5 months of development) was 0x020363, and all of 2.4.0-testX (6 > kernels and another 2 months so far) is 0x020400. We're stuck with > 0x020400 until 2.4.1 is released. It's too late to fix it now for > 2.3/2.4, but hopefully for the end of 2.5 we can convince Linus to use a > saner version scheme.
Yes. But we can at least ask Linux to release 2.4.1 as the first full 2.4 release rather than 2.4.0 so as to have a different version code for 2.4.0-test* and 2.4.first-release.
Linus?
-- Matthias Andree
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