Pre-release kernel versioning?
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Mar 19 07:19:38 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 18:00 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> Currently each Rawhide pre-release kernel reports as its version
> number the version number of the previous stable version, rather than
> the current version.
>
> This sometimes causes problems with out-of-kernel modules
I stopped caring here.
Either way, you're shipping something which is neither 2.6.20 nor
2.6.21, and in fact isn't even a point between them; we have patches of
our own. Neither version is 'correct'.
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