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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:48:39 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org> To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, DRI <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:17:21PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > > the fourth one. > > If we change from 2.6.X to 3.X, then if we don't change anything else, > then successive stable release will cause the LINUX_VERSION_CODE to be > incremented. This isn't necessary bad, but it would be a different > from what we have now. It will require another bunch of changes to scripts that try to make sense out of kernel Linux version numbers. It's a minor issue and we might be better off doing something else than version number magic. Not last a new major version number raises expectations - whatever those might be. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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