Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ?

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Jul 17 2011 - 12:11:03 EST


On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Would be nice to get this clarified before 3.0 happens :-)
>
> I don't think I can realistically make it call itself 3.0, even though
> the *tag* will certainly be just 3.0.
>
> I considered making it a config option (so that people with fixed
> tools could do it), but ..
>
Ok, so SUBLEVEL will stay. I guess that the stable kernels will then just
use that and EXTRAVERSION will go away - right?


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