linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-Id: <1238168777.5969.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:46:17 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
Cc:	Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:53 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> > > This obviously starts the merge window for 2.6.30, although as usual,
> > > I'll probably wait a day or two before I start actively merging.
> > 
> > It would be very nice, if you could start with a commit to Makefile, that 
> > reflects the new series: e.g.:
> > 
> > VERSION = 2
> > PATCHLEVEL = 6
> > SUBLEVEL = 30
> > EXTRAVERSION = -pre
> > 
> > -pre for preparing state.
> 
> If you're using the kernel-of-they-day, you're probably using git, and
> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y should be mandatory.

I sure hope it never becomes mandatory, I despise that thing.  I don't
even do -rc tags.  .nn is .nn until baked and nn.1 appears.

(would be nice if baked were immediately handed to stable .nn.0 instead
of being in limbo for a bit, but I don't drive the cart, just tag along
behind [w. shovel];)

	-Mike

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