Re: Issue with upgrade path from include/linux/version.h to uapi

2013-04-19 Thread David Howells
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > This leads to very unfortunate consequences for any user relying on > version.h to expose the kernel version accurately, since the old "stale" > kernel version will be seen by the build. > > Sadly, make clean does not even take care of removing this stale file. I wond

Issue with upgrade path from include/linux/version.h to uapi

2013-04-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Hi, With a kernel tree that contains a generated include/linux/version.h, if someone just does a git pull to update to a newer kernel version that includes commit 10b63956fce7f369cc37fd4d994f09bd5203efe4 "UAPI: Plumb the UAPI Kbuilds into the user header installation and checking" and commit d1