Re: Question Regarding "EXTRAVERSION" Specification

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 03:09:29 -0400, 
"John L. Males" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>***** Please note I am not on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.  Please
>be so kind as to BCC copy me in on any reply to this inquiry.  Thanks
>The questions are:
>
>  1) Is there a specification that states the maximum length that the
>"EXTRAVERSION" string may be?

The total length $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
must not exceed 64 characters.  Break that limit and you get garbage in
uname -r.

>  2) Does the Kernel make/build process enforce any specified limit of
>(1) above?

kbuild 2.5 enforces the limit, the existing kernel build code does not.
I sent a patch to Linus four times back in the 2.4.15 days, he
completely ignored it.  Linus does not care about kernel build
problems.

I will dig out the patch and send it to Marcelo.