Pre-release kernel versioning?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 16:23:32 UTC 2007
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:50:12AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 19.03.2007 08:19, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > 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. [...]
>
> @davej: This issue was discussed on FudCON Boston. Didn't you indicate
> you might want to change it, so that a 2.6.foo-rc kernel actually gets
> the proper version (e.g. 2.6.foo and not 2.6.(foo-1) )? Or did I got you
> wrong here?
We could add the 'real' upstream version in brackets in the uname field
so it shows up as ..
uname -r
2.6.20-1.2925.fc6debug (2.6.20.3)
for eg.
Dave
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