Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:56:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: > >> Frans Pop wrote: >>> Developers are supposed to be able to take care of themselves; >> >> _People who build kernels from sources which differ from releases_ are >> supposed to take care of themselves. > > Yes. If you compile a random development kernel, you'd better then not > come and whine to developers about how you can't tell which version it is. > Especially when we do have things like CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO exactly > for this case. > > But it's possible that people really just weren't aware of that whole > LOCALVERSION_AUTO thing.
I will say that I was not aware of it, and I've been using kernel.org kernels for many years.
I'm glad to see it there. enabling it by default would probably be a very good thing.
David Lang
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