Re: [OS-BUILD PATCH] Fix PATCHLEVEL for merge window

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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>
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