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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:18:44 -0200
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.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 Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:09:52PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?

That looks better indeed. Since this is the first release, I'll turn it
this way.

> 
> 	-hpa
> 
> 

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