Keep extraversions for Ubuntu kernsl

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Pete Graner <pgraner at canonical.com> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> I was speaking to Amit about this, so on Ubuntu, uname -r right now
>> does not show the extraversion from upstream stable series. So for
>> example right now we're on 2.6.27.8, if I want to help users of ath9k
>> I want them to have at least 2.6.27.8 as we have critical fixes that
>> went into that release. I can't easily find out what Ubuntu users are
>> on unless I know what the 2.6.27-foo means beforehand. Fedora seems to
>> keep it, for example on this report I was seeing
>> "2.6.27.5-32.fc9.x86_64":
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471329
>>
>> Would it be possible to add this for Jaunty?
>>
>>  Luis
>>
>
> We discussed this and the current thought is to add this to
> /proc/version_signature as:
>
> pgraner at moltar:~$ cat /proc/version_signature
> Ubuntu 2.6.27-7.16-generic (2.6.27.x)
>
> would that work?

Sure, we just need users to always include this in their bug reports.

Thanks,

  Luis