[PATCH 0/2] Expose the DRM version

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Mar 15 11:39:31 UTC 2010


Sounds like a sensible place to track the versions.

Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Now that we have a major backport of DRM in the kernel we want to be able
> to clearly identify the version carried programatically.  In particular
> we want this information available in the boot dmesg and in the apport
> data collected.
> 
> The following patches augment the /proc/version_signature to expose the
> full official build version number in the Makefile.  The value in this
> file is already emitted during early boot into dmesg.  This allows
> the -rcN release candidate number or stable release version to be exposed
> in the default case.  By manually augmenting the EXTRAVERSION with our
> DRM backport information we also can expose that as required.
> 
> In this case we set the EXTRAVERSION to '.9+drm33.0' indicating that we
> have 2.6.32.9 stable update applied plus the drm33 at the release version.
> The .0 will increment to match 2.6.33.y stable updates as they are applied.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (2):
>   UBUNTU: expose the kernel EXTRAVERSION in dmesg and
>     /proc/version_signature
>   UBUNTU: record the drm version in EXTRAVERSION
> 
>  Makefile                        |    2 +-
>  debian/rules.d/0-common-vars.mk |    3 +++
>  debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 





More information about the kernel-team mailing list