Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 | Date | Mon, 30 May 2011 03:59:28 +0200 |
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On Monday, May 30, 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yay! Let the bikeshed painting discussions about version numbering > begin (or at least re-start). > > I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It > will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse > enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can > no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40. > > The whole renumbering was discussed at last years Kernel Summit, and > there was a plan to take it up this year too. But let's face it - > what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed > color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all > alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it. > > Now, my alpha-maleness sadly does not actually extend to all the > scripts and Makefile rules, so the kernel is fighting back, and is > calling itself 3.0.0-rc1. We'll have the usual 6-7 weeks to wrestle it > into submission, and get scripts etc cleaned up, and the final release > should be just "3.0". The -stable team can use the third number for > their versioning. > > So what are the big changes? > > NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver > changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is > *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a > Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at > all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years > now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the > renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ("20 years") > instead. > > So no ABI changes, no API changes,
Well, actually there is one. ;-) The shutdown/suspend/resume callbacks have been removed from struct sysdev_class and struct sysdev_driver.
Not that this is important to anyone except for the 10 people or so who care, but still. :-)
Thanks for the numbering change, Rafael
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