Re: [patch] remove the `.' in EXTRAVERSION usage

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 05:42:36 EST


On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:22:45PM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> Since 2.6.9, there came along the LOCALVERSION for people to add local
> version in make menuconfig which was EXTRAVERSION originally for imho.
> Now EXTRAVERSION goes just as a kernel version number, it's reasonable
> to remove the `.' in its usage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff -Nrup 2.6.11/Makefile 2.6.11-cy/Makefile
> --- 2.6.11/Makefile 2005-03-03 17:10:57.000000000 +0800
> +++ 2.6.11-cy/Makefile 2005-03-05 16:40:46.000000000 +0800
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 6
> SUBLEVEL = 11
> -EXTRAVERSION =
> +EXTRAVERSION = 1
> NAME=Woozy Numbat
>
> # *DOCUMENTATION*
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ LOCALVERSION = $(subst $(space),, \
> $(shell cat /dev/null $(localver)) \
> $(patsubst "%",%,$(CONFIG_LOCALVERSION)))
>
> -KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(LOCALVERSION)
> +KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL).$(EXTRAVERSION)$(LOCALVERSION)

Please don't do that, you'll always end up with a trailing dot in 3-numbers
versions. Eg: V=2 P=6 S=11 => "2.6.11."

Willy

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/