What does EXTRAVERSION do?
-- pa3gcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > edit the Makefile change line 4 from; > EXTRAVERSION = > to > EXTRAVERSION = -1 > save file;
It adds another "layer" of naming to the kernel. For example, if the kernel is 2.4.21, and you edit the Makefile to read
EXTRAVERSION=-mykernel
then the compiled kernel will think its name is 2.4.21-mykernel . The kernel's "true" name, that is, not the name of the file that holds the kernel.
This affects some minor things, like what the kernel reports in response to "uname -a", and some bigger things, like the name of the directory in which it looks for modules. This last one probably matters to you ... I don't actually recall why Richard made this suggestion.
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