From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:34 -0800
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:21:51 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > > This new behavior of the kernel build system is likely to
> > > > make developers angry pretty quickly.
> > >
> > > That might motivate them to fix it ;)
> >
> > Actually, how about just removing the incrementing version count entirely?
>
> I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install
> that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing `uname -a'
> with $TOPDIR/.version.
Yeah me too :-)
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