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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.32-rc3
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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