On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:35:56 -0000, GitLab Bridge on behalf of jmflinuxtx wrote: > From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > When building during the merge window, we need to bump PATCHLEVEL in the > Makefile because Linus doesn't bump it until rc1. Something similar has > been in the Fedora spec forever. Using 5.8 as an example, without this > change we build a kernel rpm version > kernel-5.8.0-0.rc0.20200608gitaf7b4801030c.1.fc33 but with a uname of > kernel-5.7.0-0.rc0.20200608gitaf7b4801030c.1.fc33 which places the > modules in the rpm versioned directory where the kernel does not know to > look for them. With this change, both the rpm and the uname would be > the kernel-5.8 version. > > While it might be cleaner to only run this replacement if we are in the > merge window, this is much simpler than making changes across 2 > additional Makefiles, and the end result should always be the same. Looks much better, thanks! Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
