Re: [PATCH] README: Update version number reference

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 15:11 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:22:56 -0800
> Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > When 4.0 is released, the README should reflect the new numbering.
> 
> OK, I've applied this because it came in first.  There were two other
> contenders, from Yaowei Bai and Josh Poimbeuf (copied) that all did
> mostly the same thing, but Josh was trying to make it
> version-independent. 
> 
> May I point something out, though?  All three of you did something
> like:
> 
> -     bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
> +     bzip2 -dc linux-4.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
> 
> without noticing the fact that .bz2 files haven't been available from
> kernel.org for a while.  Much less that installation from tarballs
> must
> be getting rare, and people shouldn't put them in /usr/src in any
> case.
> 
> In other words, this file is pretty crufty in quite a few ways that
> just
> tweaking the version number will not fix.  Given enough time I'll try
> to
> take a swing at it, but if anybody wants to bring it into the current
> era, that would be most welcome.

I am slammed with Intel wired Ethernet patches currently, so I do not
mind if someone else wants to wants to take the lead on this.  I like
the idea of making this version agnostic so that this type of
modification does not need to be made anytime a major version change is
made.

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