On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: > > Whoever edits the top-level Makefile before last compilation decides > what EXTRAVERSION is. > > Yes, patches often do set EXTRAVERSION, but that's of no consequences; > I can't think of a reason a patched kernel should check the > EXTRAVERSION to see whether it's "correctly set" (not to mention that > it's probably not that easy to get at the version string from any > random place in the kernel code). if all the absurd versioning convention used in the late 2.4 development is not proof that there is no magic to the value of EXTRAVERSION i don't know what is... 2.4.0-test11-pre3-ac5 ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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