Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 24 May 2011 15:48:39 +0100 | | From | Ralf Baechle <> | | Subject | Re: (Short?) merge window reminder |
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:17:21PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > > the fourth one. > > If we change from 2.6.X to 3.X, then if we don't change anything else, > then successive stable release will cause the LINUX_VERSION_CODE to be > incremented. This isn't necessary bad, but it would be a different > from what we have now.
It will require another bunch of changes to scripts that try to make sense out of kernel Linux version numbers. It's a minor issue and we might be better off doing something else than version number magic. Not last a new major version number raises expectations - whatever those might be.
Ralf
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