linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change

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Date:	Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:33:20 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:33:52PM -0400, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Wed 2008-10-15 17:25:09 -0700, Grek KH wrote to Linus Torvalds:
> >
> >You brought this topic up a few months ago, and passed it off as
> >something we would discuss at the kernel summit. 
> 
> On Friday 2008-10-17 17:44, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> >Seriously, am I the only one that is getting annoyed by our version
> >numbers?  If so, I can live with it, but I got the feeling that I wasn't
> >alone here.
> 
> 
> If there is a real discontent about the version number
> it would have already been changed.
> Given that nothing happened, it seems it is tolerated.

Huh?  I'm showing discontent here.  Is that not "real"?

thanks,

greg k-h
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