Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:10:11 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.8 - Oops on NFSv3 |
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 12:20:08PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:05:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > Cane we make this 2.6.9 to avoid breaking all kinds of scripts expecting > > > three-digit kernel versions? > > > > Well, we've been discussing the 2.6.x.y format for a while, so I see this > > as an opportunity to actually do it... Will it break automated scripts? > > Maybe. But on the other hand, we'll never even find out unless we try it > > some time. > > We might avoid some of this (and communicate more to end users) by > using the 2.4 -pre and -rc nomenclature, where a release is made by > renaming an -rc kernel. As it stands, the current 2.6 "release > candidate" naming is a lie - there's no intent to make it a final > release.
I agree. The renaming is done by hpa's "bless-as-final" script on master.kernel.org. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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