Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

[david]

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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