Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Frans Pop <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:09:34 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > And what people are suggesting with a 2.6.32-rc0 would just lead to > people now rebasing their work NOT EVEN ON A RELEASE. They'd want to > rebase it on top of that made-up commit (2.6.32-rc0), so now from a > development standpoint that commit suddenly becomes more important than > the release itself.
IMO you're looking at this from the wrong side: the developer PoV. The request is made from a *user* PoV. Users very simply want to avoid that they accidentally install a merge window kernel over their stable kernel. IMO that makes sense.
Developers are supposed to be able to take care of themselves; the mainline tree should aim to make things easy for users.
I see the release versions purely as reference points. And -rc0 is obviously useless from that perspective, which is why it should be just a Makefile thing and not a tag. But -rc0 is IMO very useful to distinguish what kernels someone has installed.
BTW, including the commit number in the version string has a major disadvantage: kernels will get installed *alongside* eachother instead of the newer kernel replacing the older one. Result is that /boot partitions fill up much more quickly.
Cheers, FJP
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