Re: [PATCH] kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION indiscriminately

[Alexandru Gagniuc]

Hi Nathan and Nicholas,

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 09:56:12PM +0100, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 05:36:26PM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 07:25:36PM +0000 Alexandru Gagniuc wrote:
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v6.12+
> > 
> > Shouldn't this be v6.8, as 7d4f07d5cb71 got introduced there?
> 
> Presumably this is because there are no supported kernel versions
> between 6.8 and 6.12 anymore but I think the '# v6.12+' is entirely
> superfluous because there is a fixes tag, so the stable folks will
> figure out how far to backport it automatically based on that.
> 
I'll just remove the '# v6.12+' then.
> > > Fixes: 7d4f07d5cb71 ("kbuild: deb-pkg: squash scripts/package/deb-build-option to debian/rules")

I agree that "unconditionally" better conveys the idea behind the
patch. I'll make that change too.

Alex