On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:01:57AM +0300, Fathi Boudra wrote:
On 13 September 2017 at 05:28, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
It's from the git describe. If you look at kernelci results you'll see exactly the same thing.
That's correct.
As discussed before, it's the output of git describe. Since Greg doesn't push rc tags in the stable rc tree (and doesn't want to), it is expected:
I think this is coming back to the fact that it's hard to work out what the tree is - it's not sufficiently obvious that this is an -rc.
I agree I also want to see pulling from the Makefile for the proper version. I'll talk to Fathi.
It isn't more accurate than git describe and even lead to incorrect version. It's randomly updated or not by the developers. See previous discussion in the thread "Wrong kernel version string in lkft reports?".
Very few trees will set versions so it's really not sensible to rely on that, that really only works for a small subset of trees and not all commits in those trees (eg, Linus only tags on releases but updates in between releases all the time).