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

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Message-ID: <48198873.7030503@hartkopp.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 11:08:03 +0200
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	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

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> i wonder about the Kernel naming convention in the merge phase before
>> the -rc1 is officially tagged by Linus.
>>
>> Won't it be more precisely to name the current snapshot
>> 2.6.26-merge-git16 instead of 2.6.25-git16?
>>
>> It is not that i would suggest to have a new git tag in this merge 
>> phase but only the Makefile should be changed at the beginning of 
>> this phase to identify the ongoing work for the 2.6.26:
>>
>> (..)
>>
>> Introducing the new '-merge' version _that_ early helps to avoid the 
>> version confusion in /lib/modules and also allows people to work with 
>> kernel version depended stuff in a very early phase.
>>
>
> And it'll break all the robotic stuff again.
>
> Foo-gitX has always been a development snapshot which *follows* Foo.

Hm - if it breaks the robotic stuff, there could be a real 
"v2.6.26-merge" git tag which shouldn't break like "v2.6.26-rc1".

It could look like this:

- tag v2.6.25
- drink a beer
- tag v2.6.26-merge
- pull the new stuff from subsystem maintainers
- tag v2.6.26-rc1
- ...

For me a 2.6.25-gitX looks like a snapshot that leads to a 2.6.25.1 and 
_not_ to a 2.6.26-rc1. The current 2.6.25-git16 is moch more a 2.6.26 
than a 2.6.25. So v2.6.26-merge-git16 makes it much clearer what's going 
on here.

To tag Linus' tree with v2.6.26-merge before pulling all the new 2.6.26 
stuff seems therefore reasonable to me. But maybe i don't have all the 
dependencies on my radar.

Regards,
Oliver

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