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

[Russell King]

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:36:05AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so we have $(VERSION).$(MINOR).$(PATCHLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(USERVERSION).
Isn't this the same as $(VERSION).$(MINOR).$(PATCHLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) where
$(EXTRAVERSION) has $(USERVERSION) appended?

In other words:

EXTRAVERSION=-ac4-build1

You can extend EXTRAVERSION infinitely, but after the first 10 or so
characters, it starts to get silly.

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