lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Oct]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
FromRob Landley <>
SubjectRe: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change
DateThu, 16 Oct 2008 20:26:57 -0500
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 19:25:09 Greg KH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You brought this topic up a few months ago, and passed it off as
> something we would discuss at the kernel summit.  But that never
> happened, so I figured I'd bring it up again here.
>
> So, as someone who constantly is dealing with kernel version numbers all
> the time with the -stable trees, our current numbering scheme is a pain
> a times.  How about this proposal instead?

I don't understand, what exactly is a pain about it?  (I can't tell why a new 
one is better if you don't say what you're objecting to about the old one...)

> Benefits of this is it more accuratly represents to people just how old
> the kernel they are currently running is (2.6.9 would be have been
> 2004.9.0 on this naming scheme.)

Benefits is plural, but I seem to have missed the other ones.  Or is that the 
only issue, wanting to put a more prominent "best if used by" date in the 
name ala Windows 95?

Rob


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-10-17 03:29    [from the cache]
©2003-2008