Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:38:49 +0200 | From | Maarten Lankhorst <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc3 |
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Op 14-06-11 14:15, Denys Vlasenko schreef: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> .. and this time even with a timely tar-ball, since I'm not traveling any more. >> >> What do we have in it? More than in -rc2. I'm clearly not the only one >> who was in Japan for LinuxCon, or something else just made people wake >> up. > Linus, I know I run a risk of being not the first person to ask this, > but anyway. > > I've got a patch for my project to fix parsing of kernel version which > has only two numbers. Basically, > > - scanf(ver, "%u.%u.%u", &a, &b, &c) > + sscanf(ver, "%u.%u", &a, &b) > > I can take it, but it made me thinking: how many other projects > will be similarly affected? Must be hundreds, even thousands. > > I propose to still use three digits. I mean, if you want to use > 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 numbering for your releases and leave third digit > for stable series, just number them 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0 instead. > > This way, many userspace projects will need less patching > in order to work with 3.x. In many cases, they can > avoid patching altogether. > ~$ uname -r 3.0.0-rc3-patser+
~Maarten
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