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Message-ID: <50B3CC90.8090800@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:09:52 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com> To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com, Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 168/270] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping. On 11/26/2012 12:08 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:02:09AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 11/26/2012 08:57 AM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: >>> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> What kind of version number is that? > > This is an "extended stable" tree, a fork from the last 3.5 stable > update (3.5 isn't maintained anymore by stable upstream). Thus > it seemed better to just follow last released 3.5 stable version, and > append an extraversion to it, which I chose in the end to be u<n> > (u == update). It's unlikely that other 3.5 stable upstream update will > be done, in any case I expect this way to avoid any issue. > Why not 3.5.7.1 sticking with the pre-established version numbering scheme? -hpa -- 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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