Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.6.8.1 versioning change

[Jason Stubbs]

On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:46, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:23:11AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > Well, as per the thread on lkml, it looks like 2.6.8 was released with a
> > nasty bug in NFS write support.  So Linus took this opportunity to try
> > out the new version scheme and released 2.6.8.1, which fixes the NFS
> > problem.
>
> Well, if this isn't working properly, I'll just make a g-d-s release
> against 2.6.8 with at least that single patch in it so that users can
> work properly.
>
> If you note on lkml a number of people are saying they will be keeping a
> -postX release tree just to keep the breakage at a minimum for now.
>
> Give me a day to get it out, there's a bunch of patches that need to be
> rediffed...

I haven't downloaded 2.6.8.1 yet (nor 2.6.8 actually ;) but depending on how 
the version is set in the Makefile, $KV may be incorrectly set. To be sure:

${KV} == ${VERSION}.${PATCHLEVEL}.${SUBLEVEL}${EXTRAVERSION}

If SUBLEVEL is "8.1" then there is no problem here. Can somebody confirm if 
that is in fact the case?

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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