On 2016-02-11 15:25, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > ... making upstream development binutils snapshots work as expected, > e.g.: > > $ mips64el-linux-ld --version > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303 > [...] > $ > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxx> fwiw, Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> > NB comments in scripts/Kbuild.include around `ld-version' have not been > accordingly updated in the course of changes made to `ld-version.sh' and > they still need such an update, unless we right-shift the version code > calculated back by 4 decimal digits, which I hesitated doing here for > simplicity. What was the original reason to add the 4th and 5th > components? No idea, but I don't think we will ever need this level of detail. So yes, the script and its only in-tree user could be updated to divide the numbers by 10000. Michal
