linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

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Message-ID: <20091007213934.GB10904@goodmis.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:39:34 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, 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

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:24:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'd much rather screw up the version number entirely and add a _random_ 
> number to it (so that the Makefile would say "2.6.18" after I have 
> released 2.6.32) just so that people would be forced to _understand_ that 
> the version number isn't as meaningful as you seem to think it is.

Oh oh oh... Can we call it 2.7 now!

Or better yet. 3.0 :-)

-- Steve

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