Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:06:28 +0200 |
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On Friday 17 October 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:16:38AM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: > > I believe some of Adrian's concerns are valid. Userspace programs will > > indeed break, largely because some depend on build-time and run-time > > checks for the kernel version being >=2.6.0 or >=2.4.0 and so forth. I > > suspect the best way to prove userspace breakage would be to make a > > branch of the kernel with a new versioning scheme (8.10, 2008.10, > > whatever) and use that as the installed kernel while building a Gentoo > > system. I suspect you'd see massive breakage. > > That would be trivial for me to test, IFF we want to do something like > this. > > But again, that's a technical thing, that can be solved _IFF_ we want to > change things. > > And that's my point here, do we want to change the current numbering > scheme as people have expressed annoyances of the current one.
Numbering scheme? I thought we should all be using the official kernel version NAME after the -final release? Was I mistaken?
PS1 seems like somebody forgot to update it for 2.6.27...
PS2 current numbering scheme is OK
Thanks, Bart
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