Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So I literally think that our current CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO includes 
> the best of both worlds. It has the "uniquely identifying" part, but it 
> also has a part that is human-readable and useful for that reason.

Btw, that doesn't mean that I'm married to the exact details of the syntax 
etc. I like CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, but I can also see why Ingo would 
prefer a "+" there instead of a "-".

And the zero-padding to five digits of the number of commits may make 
things line up nicely, and I think there was even some odd technical 
reason for it too (some package manager or other that was unhappy with 
"simple" numbers like "-1" and thought that they were a build number or 
something), but it's admittedly silly too.

So I'm not trying to say that we could not change the details or perhaps 
improve on it. What I _am_ trying to say is that conceptually that whole 
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is absolutely the only sane way to do things. 
Whether we could expand on it or simplify it or paint it a different bike 
shed color, I don't care much about.

So I'm not married to the exact details of our current LOCALVERSION_AUTO 
thing. But I _am_ 100% convinced that it's conceptually the right thing to 
do, unlike the other suggestions I have pooh-poohed in this thread.

		Linus
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