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

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Message-Id: <200807160934.m6G9YbG04620@inv.it.uc3m.es>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:34:37 +0200
From:	"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@....it.uc3m.es>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

In article <487D7781.6000407@...access.nl> Renewrote:
> I do believe the numbering scheme should at least ostensibly still be 
> feature driven, not be a fully robotic date thing. With the latter, you 

2.6.9 was the last of a sequence of internally compatible kernels.

2.6.16 or 18 or 22 is the last of another such sequence (depending on
       what you look at)
2.6.24 probably should have started a new version number.

Peter
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