Re: 2.4.21-ben ?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:36, Kristian Peters wrote:
> Hello again.
> 
> Sorry Rogério my emailer messed up and I sent that message to you
> directly. Shame on me.
> 
> So in brevity:
> 
> What I really wanted to know is how can I be sure that my -ben5
> kernel is the same as on the internet ? Since Bitkeeper trees are
> like cvs and have every day another content.
> Or does Benjamin only release bug chunks as changes and marks every
> change with a new subversion ?

I do both ;)

Actually, if the kernel is called -benX with X > 0, then it's a
snapshot of a "stable" release. For example, I uploaded 2.4.21-ben1
to my stable rsync today. Any kernel called -ben1 should be identical,
unless somebody uploaded a hacked one, but there's nothing I can do there...

If it's called -ben0, then it's a snapshot of whatever is in my devel
tree at a given time and you can't rely on consistency. It will stay
-ben0 until I release a new stable.

Ben;