From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263585AbTDNRjN (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:39:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263590AbTDNRjN (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:39:13 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:19982 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263585AbTDNRjK (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:39:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:50:52 +0100 From: Russell King To: James Bourne Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , Martin Schlemmer , Ken Brownfield , Marc-Christian Petersen , KML Subject: Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy Message-ID: <20030414185052.D22754@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: James Bourne , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , Martin Schlemmer , Ken Brownfield , Marc-Christian Petersen , KML References: <20030414144709.GE10347@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jbourne@hardrock.org on Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:09:02AM -0600 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vurnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:09:02AM -0600, James Bourne wrote: > will need to be looked at as these are ones which contain references to > SUBVERSION... References to EXTRAVERSION also reside in these files. It > would just be better to do the "right thing" IMHO. Note that EXTRAVERSION is not numeric. A kernel version string can be like: 2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2 which definitely is not numeric. Anything which assumes it is would be broken. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html