Re: EXTRAVERSION -kgdb [Re: [PATCH] i386 Hardware watchpoints using kgdb-2-2.6.14.tar.gz]

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 8:48 pm, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:34:18PM +0530, Amit Kale wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Dennis' patch contains following change. We used to have an EXTRAVERSION
> > -kgdb in kgdb patch some time ago, it was removed because it didn't add
> > much value and it caused patches to fail as soon as any of those
> > variables changed.
> >
> > Does anyone believe we should bring this in again?
>
> Nope.  This is better done either with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION or
> echo mystuff > localversion nowadays, too.

Could you throw some light on this? Would be handy. When I face problems with 
plan and kgdb kernels with same version string, EXTRAVERSION isn't an easy 
work around.
-Amit


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