On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 15:11 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:22:56 -0800 > Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When 4.0 is released, the README should reflect the new numbering. > > OK, I've applied this because it came in first. There were two other > contenders, from Yaowei Bai and Josh Poimbeuf (copied) that all did > mostly the same thing, but Josh was trying to make it > version-independent. > > May I point something out, though? All three of you did something > like: > > - bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - > + bzip2 -dc linux-4.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - > > without noticing the fact that .bz2 files haven't been available from > kernel.org for a while. Much less that installation from tarballs > must > be getting rare, and people shouldn't put them in /usr/src in any > case. > > In other words, this file is pretty crufty in quite a few ways that > just > tweaking the version number will not fix. Given enough time I'll try > to > take a swing at it, but if anybody wants to bring it into the current > era, that would be most welcome. I am slammed with Intel wired Ethernet patches currently, so I do not mind if someone else wants to wants to take the lead on this. I like the idea of making this version agnostic so that this type of modification does not need to be made anytime a major version change is made.
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