linux-kernel - Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807150818300.3017@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	gorcunov@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?



On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number.

No, that would be horrible. The only point of changign the numbering would 
be to make the numbers smaller. Not fewer. I don't like "26" much as a 
version number, I'd like "131" even less.

So I'd much rather have something like "2.9.1" than "27", just because 
it's a hierarchy of simpler numbers.

		Linus
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