Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:31:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So I literally think that our current CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO includes > the best of both worlds. It has the "uniquely identifying" part, but it > also has a part that is human-readable and useful for that reason.
Btw, that doesn't mean that I'm married to the exact details of the syntax etc. I like CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, but I can also see why Ingo would prefer a "+" there instead of a "-".
And the zero-padding to five digits of the number of commits may make things line up nicely, and I think there was even some odd technical reason for it too (some package manager or other that was unhappy with "simple" numbers like "-1" and thought that they were a build number or something), but it's admittedly silly too.
So I'm not trying to say that we could not change the details or perhaps improve on it. What I _am_ trying to say is that conceptually that whole CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is absolutely the only sane way to do things. Whether we could expand on it or simplify it or paint it a different bike shed color, I don't care much about.
So I'm not married to the exact details of our current LOCALVERSION_AUTO thing. But I _am_ 100% convinced that it's conceptually the right thing to do, unlike the other suggestions I have pooh-poohed in this thread.
Linus
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