linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 13:13:03 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
CC:	Romano Giannetti <romanol@...omillas.es>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase

Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> 
> This is no real detail. How can -rc0 break a naming scheme for a robot,
> when -rc1 doesn't?
> 

Because of things like:

- regexp patterns like -(rc|pre)([1-9][0-9]*)
- using zero to mean "no rc/pre"
- assuming 1 is the immediate decendent of the previous one

So on, etc, yadda yadda...

	-hpa
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