On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:51:23 +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Roland wrote:
>> Absolutely not. Although I have programming skills, I have no clue about
>> C/C++, which is what the kernel is written in.
>
>C++ in the kernel.?
Probably not ... :-)
[snip]
>
>One thing i dont understand is why people dont "express" the need to define an
>"EXTRAVERSTION" in the Topdir Makefile, when the option was not there just
>about everyone was screeming for it, now we have that wonderfull option very
>few people advise the use of it. Or thats the way it seems.
I find it useful if I actually build a patch - you'll also see it used on eg
the raid-patches, the hpt366-patch, the bproc-patch and probably many others.
/Per Jessen
regards,
Per Jessen
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