Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:26:55 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ? |
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > Hi > > > > If the plan is that the new kernel is going to be 3.0 (3.x) and the > > -stable kernels then get to tack on a third digit with EXTRAVERSION, then > > it seems to me that the main Makefile should get rid of SUBLEVEL - or? > > > > Or is the plan to ditch EXTRAVERSION for -stable kernels and have them use > > SUBLEVEL instead? > > > > There are a few scripts that need fixing if SUBLEVEL goes the way of the > > Dodo, but I didn't want to start fixing those without a clear indication > > of whether or not SUBLEVEL is going to/should die. > > > > So what's going to happen to SUBLEVEL/EXTRAVERSION? > > I cannot answer this, but I'd certainly like to see a clear answer > since I also have several scripts that need such attention. > And besides our own personal scriots there's also stuff like scripts/patch-kernel and Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt that need updating.
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