Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Is this a bad thing?
> 
> IMHO yes. This change essentially creates a backwards incompatibility with 
> existing naming schemes. Requiring to patch the change out to preserve an 
> existing naming scheme just seems a tad unfriendly.

Let's keep the old behavior by making the AUTO option an three-way choice 
("none", "short", "auto"), and making sure that it actually takes work to 
choose "none" (and that "make oldconfig" doesn't choose it unless you 
explicitly made the choice before - so people who just re-use old .config 
files wouldn't get "none" by mistake).

		Linus
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