ÂRe: kernel versioning

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Fri Mar 10 16:58:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:

> upstream kernels that are release candidates or git sub-rcs etc. are
> versioned in FC/RHEL based on the previous stable kernel release,
> e.g. FC5's 2.6.16-rc5-git9 kernel is released as 2.6.15.
>
> I generally think that's a good idea (e.g. it *is* 2.6.15 with patches
> towards 2.6.16 and not yet 2.6.16, and the user is not confused that
> he's already running 2.6.16).
>
> But tons of kernel module projects check on the version of the kernel
> and trigger different code bits. These projects depend on the
> versioning to decide whether some features exist or not.
>
> This results to funny external Fedora-patches to these projects that
> only last a kernel release and are troublesome to maintain.

Yes, this is a nightmare for openswan's KLIPS module.

> So there is a wish to keep the versioning in the top level Makefile as
> vanilla ships it. That way the checks will be more accurate and
> users/upstream/packagers will have less to worry about, less
> Fedora-only patching and so on.

That is going to be confusing too.

> Any thoughts on how to make everyone happy? :)

I have no idea :(

Paul
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