Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 6 May 2001 18:08:03 +0100 | | From | Russell King <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r |
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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:36:05AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:12:17AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > You assign a new EXTRAVERSION to the new kernel you are building, and keep the > > old kernel at the old name. > > Except that some patches (ie, RAID, -ac) use EXTRAVERSION. There needs to > be a new variable, say USERVERSION, that will *ONLY* be set during make > USERVERSION=foo.
Ok, so we have $(VERSION).$(MINOR).$(PATCHLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(USERVERSION). Isn't this the same as $(VERSION).$(MINOR).$(PATCHLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) where $(EXTRAVERSION) has $(USERVERSION) appended?
In other words:
EXTRAVERSION=-ac4-build1
You can extend EXTRAVERSION infinitely, but after the first 10 or so characters, it starts to get silly.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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