linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.12.12-rt19

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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:07:43 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	pavel@...linux.ru
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.12.12-rt19

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:55:20 +0400
Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@...linux.ru> wrote:

> No, because in positional number systems, an increase in the senior level,
> junior reset, but not stays the same. Mainline kernel and patches is senior level.

If you notice, there's no '.' between the mainline version and the rt
version. It's a dash "-rtX". What that number represents is the version
of the patch series for that release. We don't start a new version at
each stable release, but we do start a new one at each major release.

Thus, -rt19 is the 19th version of this rt patch series. When we rebase
on top of another major release, a lot of rewrites need to be done, and
we start a new version series.

Resetting the -rt number at each minor release would not be useful to
us and thus not necessary.

-- Steve
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