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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add XEN_VENDORVERSION

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add XEN_VENDORVERSION
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:35:28 +0100
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:28:07PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> > Add a XEN_VENDORVERSION variable to allow additional text on top of the 
> > extra
> > version.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Sounds like a bit of a XEN_EXTRAEXTRAVERSION. :-) Can't you just redefine
> XEN_EXTRAVERSION? That doesn't sound too onerous to me.

I believe the idea was that you could always set XEN_VENDORVERSION
without having to worry exactly what version is being set by Xen. That
is, a prefix that is guaranteed never to be set by upstream.

But it's not particularly onerous, no.

regards,
john

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