Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 6 May 2001 01:36:05 -0700

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:12:17AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> You assign a new EXTRAVERSION to the new kernel you are building, and keep the
> old kernel at the old name.

Except that some patches (ie, RAID, -ac) use EXTRAVERSION. There needs to
be a new variable, say USERVERSION, that will *ONLY* be set during make
USERVERSION=foo.

mrc

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