Re: .version keeps being updated

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:25:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to
> > > > make developers angry pretty quickly.
> > > 
> > > That might motivate them to fix it ;)
> > 
> > Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count
> > entirely?
>
> I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to
> install that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing
> `uname -a' with $TOPDIR/.version.

second that!

please do not remove this useful 'debug' feature :)

TIA,
Herbert

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