Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ?

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Jul 10 2011 - 19:27:02 EST


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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