linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:08:46 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3


* Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I.e. i think it's a fact that right now our release version is highly 
> > deceptive during the merge window.
> [...]
> > One option would be to make LOCALVERSION_AUTO compulsory.
> > 
> > Or to add a tweak to the naming, something like:
> > 
> >  v2.6.31
> >  v2.6.31+
> >  v2.6.32-rc1
> >  v2.6.32-rc1+
> [...]
> > ... for the sole purpose of warning people that anything they pull after 
> > v2.6.31 got released is (wildly!) not vanilla v2.6.31 anymore.
> 
> If this scheme is meant to be something on which people can rely on, 
> everybody who commits to a tree from which Linus pulls from would have 
> to base their branches onto those ...+ commits, always.

I think you misunderstood - the + would just be a shortcut for the 
long-form precise version string.

	Ingo
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