Re: Kernel 2.0.8 displaying as 2.0.0

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From: John Saunders
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:00

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Graham Daveney <daveney@speednet.com.au> wrote:
>    Interesting. I checked the file version.h in the
>    /usr/src/linux/include/linux directory and it says there 
> 
>    #define UTS_RELEASE "2.0.8"

From my experience the version numbers in the Makefile are the ones that
set the version name.

You probably applied patches but neglected to do a 'make mrproper' so you
are picking up some older files. It's lucky that the kernel runs at all.

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From: johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.0.8 displaying as 2.0.0
Date: 1996/07/29
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