Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:13:40 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Complaint about recent LINUX_VERSION_CODEs |
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Perhaps the real problem isn't the "feature freeze" but the numbering -- > > maybe we should still be in the "2.3.xxx" pre-nothing stage currently. Or > > the FAQ needs to be updated. > > Indeed, now that LINUX_VERSION_CODE has the value 0x20400 for all > kernels over the last few months, it's impossible to write modules that > will compile on all of them :-(
I'm still wondering if it was good to have 2.3.99-pre and 2.4.0-test-pre-whatever-other-tag since that gives a nasty and difficult-to-handle version numbering. I would have preferred if Linux had stuck to 2.3.1xx until the final 2.4.0 series, while it's not my decisision, this versioning scheme is a horrible mess.
OTOH, I understand that pre-test series are bugfix series, so APIs should not change, however the test-* mapping admittedly flattens that VERSION_CODE.
-- Matthias Andree
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